Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75e5eb07302ca4cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:57:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 47eabe306e1b0b515d4fc130a69ab3a1 SHA-1: 1d529463b0f9d140a3f1e1eec0805cfce5211b99 SHA-256: 75e5eb07302ca4cdff13bba51f286e28a1b04f7d4f352ea29b883907255c7b3a
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ala+vaikunthapurramuloo+torrent+magnet PDF link annotation
    • https://thuanxuongmonmb.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/70866625811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kexatuvasupapiwolivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turdv.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/danosazejunare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xfswchem.com/upload/files/75709329749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malabarisproducoes.com/arquivos/files/novuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/2450540104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wheelmartthailand.com/image/upload/File/rufimuvazotalebawome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18a111bab407f054dc4a61332e306884/91072567658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaii-resort.info/images/blog/file/16807085257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/21011396161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/nubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/jewisivibotiwobekudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109012349468727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg6pk6bhrs5mljjiccnu493n37/16760956014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graphicart.ro/fckfiles/file/tidivefofadowozolesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/kekaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/verijixezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/file/80742231581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autohausnschmidt.de/userfiles/file/95453073922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614572750d3b2---pibasimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/xonesedisozuwuzaxowabava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c9084dc01b84531fa0e7b0d12f9d4d/37328065206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/13022631302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pelagozugomalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monamifrance.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_8199E981CF66B671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/todunadijeboleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d0e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FC 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 77939db72487b8b61f5bf44472f29d6cad8323829e1266dade11d79565a65cfe
font_02_sfnt_off00010195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10195 21224 bytes
SHA-256: 256bc83a38b92dab8d712725315e250b078a4b7022b9f3ebbd172c7505b1a227