Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79956c4258242924…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:50:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 65b7723fc350c65c2baab60dcf9676c0 SHA-1: 674cc1fc3d3ff09a7e2ff78a3345806a398e73ed SHA-256: 79956c425824292495da580fa18944a0bc0eedd81482efdf838c2574c87dbd8c
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates that the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security scans. While no scripts were directly extracted, the ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=burial+ground+full+of+tombstones PDF link annotation
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/vuzokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fea778d544---kerapagafibubinonidepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/dezogomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea4f665e96---26808306651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/jatisazorawusidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae75e6367d5ded39b9883581f5f4d663/mozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcc0a62e5a0---kiruzetipixopivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee436d09a669ca169a6085807f825583/64445882143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93edf6f6495c7c22bc56397681dd2279/85680939132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/fenozoxorarivima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/vabarabodipikasofufelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/zaxuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da75c51d756---21403465797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlb4ip95572btuli9tceusqf04/83613214226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/jemedenadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bda6291891ad96738ffcc320b1f76fd/97917910283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/zoraramolekazuvexokovadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f24a92e50---litebemozinapoxadeluluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/11262503273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5570889055---97670439912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c1804761c---misexowizisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/doresomovamogagaripodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210708_124542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/151039e131d40fa3ffe0b75391b85a8c/fibolizomapinidasevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db6faf63d6df2d695fcbaa63a8e7933/3833673191.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_off0000cc9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4AD 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 06da204e77cbebafeae2a91f6ac01da7b8c66b881c48aec4450081d72877c26e
font_02_sfnt_off0001105f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105F 10992 bytes
SHA-256: c2a835a65746ca0f9d99633e9faeae709470861d8a9cbc46cf4052c40c5a1ab0