Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f703583bd99160d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-10-06 04:14:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 6b6a20558c48dbce32756683771de317 SHA-1: a682df060da2b0fc52df0772f76d0a1b084da721 SHA-256: 7f703583bd99160d3f67e8262957ec2ae872569ba282d4f17315df172834eabf
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 compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yellow+heart+meaning+snapchat PDF link annotation
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/sevuvugemegomanolimifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfshh31uc826ql3qe3clg3vcle/44350843569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/95814520216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/23245246121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/xikovagololojilepenewuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/wisivoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/5182971317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cityface.cz/res/file/91540947456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5cfc54b4c3761112455d0fca4cd184/vuwikeran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themetamorphoseprogram.com/userfiles/file/4290585772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161560ee94026e---12220054849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--brneneskontor-landsforening-b0c.dk/userfiles/file/65108133558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countryclaim.cz/userfiles/file/85404121987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/54864257452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/xazogigezodapodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/46594378169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreabulk.net/userData/board/file/21607504584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shturnev.com/files/foFKED/file/lofufizozojar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158def44d052---wofozeferopixagobekuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/jutiminepesizizokikawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realtor-madrid.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/ridexatuvofoxizizafane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a79d85ecfc4b95ab735c00fb7d0f119/10436624800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luyutea.net/v15/Upload/file/2021927437241762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natpuedu.in/userfiles/file/rovajelud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paxoriranexawev.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_off0000e908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE908 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 789fdc1f78dc44218e3a1f9e551b07eb091c6b102fda2f0cc4013b7281688a5c
font_01_sfnt_off00010218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10218 19924 bytes
SHA-256: 2e7dd58e728aac7ddeb864018838371075e3a63a8ea0e4498d2cc15a15029b99
font_02_sfnt_off00013616.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13616 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1