Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a825aac698acfa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:12:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 96f6ef19c8561772fe3eb4fa07cb0c0a SHA-1: ef719af41abdd9206361b6d196c28a7f7003cc11 SHA-256: 7a825aac698acfa06cac8e637c5b07a0b7c9afff0062c33e529fbdc18f0947de
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to trick users into downloading further payloads, likely through a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+san+mobile+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--brneneskontor-landsforening-b0c.dk/userfiles/file/tisolefodafugujidubomika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotavesifape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d40b86cf6b---46908914912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62859782191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ave-france.com/pics/files/58033537772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nasledie-sluck.by/var/upload/file/pofiwizimoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/79007843707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/pumosuxolalapepatizezane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85590693666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326d5905399---latifoxekerazakiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/jobapafolidesufipuzilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7d893e8e0---41170486991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumisaedu.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_4A4F0F7DE0216DF5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/FCKeditor/file/linavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnavaldemarbella.com/Senegal_5/Content/files/userfiles/file/kobesubaleja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/lezexeralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/69649735209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e352ab397ba4a0e5edfcab7bb5bc93e/85641001036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/kagebapuzikir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee3307818c2aadb40cee47dff8e654c/90270588117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/33032421018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55181820525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/dabavepivoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taaltoetsvo.nl/userfiles/file/kuwiromunipezujunasep.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_off0000ceb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEB5 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 5b98202b52cc232fa2cc6b634aefd625b4152de58c3cc627fa5120fe3c7290f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A8 16828 bytes
SHA-256: c3734d5d83e2d83c1970834fab472465d26461685f3fbed722e4a24550ccf0e7
font_02_sfnt_off000111e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1