Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f3ff1a8113b8d87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-06-19 08:32:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 019191890f0079d111373561e08c05a2 SHA-1: 64b120795c185df4c40790bd01371ae4e89e079f SHA-256: 7f3ff1a8113b8d87ea1fca89d83adc83263ae72ecf4dc0a0ccd34db0c48ab581
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm designed to host malicious files, with several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic suggests the document attempts to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • 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 http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/92442537009.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/jowesowisibudiperajifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609690fc2139e---poruzowibomozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b48e797569---figejope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9iolqk7ke86d1bc3hrc1fgaco/kipewonutisogotilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/xivibotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/fufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080610234868---91270082776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tunnha5g4hgd0gd9ha0tv6nbcu/nevetinazedakufupagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/28482762443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/16397478317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826910507c4---wutipejefozibike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/sajujeguzanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/42357891309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/32516438973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c84c42d643d---wixaturuboxediripuzuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae9efe7bdffed0f26f741b027b63f04/87780525858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=boboiboy+the+movie+2+english+subtitles+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eaaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAAF 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 9dabd9e588f96b9d47e4a96e8e4717416783b897bd403d90de607470c7188ee0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAF 10768 bytes
SHA-256: c13dd69f9951565edf514eed52b142f8d6721b92668b58e6eeda532ce7f52dc0
font_02_sfnt_off0001224c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378