Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7419fc2f657f190e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-10-10 12:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6b70d92bc93b26635878cddab82a872c SHA-1: 34dd5e9567786676ea2139ad777b1af84990a910 SHA-256: 7419fc2f657f190e7b56b2d60688999c5097704c2621dc87875361499a01935c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains flagged as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF's nature and the presence of external links indicate a likely attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 5

  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/rinerizuxugi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://liavanhaeringen.nl/userfiles/files/jisazamepofavupodakidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviafond.ru/userfiles/file/79884458831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cemb.ca/upload/editor/file/wawajatudelomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/31752052950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/jukojenilaxegujubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/kopekopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusamulticentralestari.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/junanukowaviwonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba601c91e463d93d56f093f640b6d7f4/zimugigunevegosiluga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongming-eco.com/userfiles/file/73768742631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/korufiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613409db1d56e---49382122614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mipunebero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614afdcf39726---64297139332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/vekub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knhct2bb0hfps9q4ism28h0vu6/raxixarufexemodane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/pitozimosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///48203650054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/8029067376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackhorsesc.pl/userfiles/file/59370433442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginzaramen.us/uploads/files/sajavubelejagasalowupuxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/9407250844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=clairaudient+word+meaningPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c742.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC742 18588 bytes
SHA-256: 2e7255295683ff605bebf76fce09d783153ced8adc680bbcac3286d1ba9e5387
font_01_sfnt_off0000f82f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82F 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 0d562b71e6020332baec4bc48c7b070b7fbc6e0361ca147dce05496f0251ffef
font_02_sfnt_off0001105a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1