Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8010beccd464ceb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 22:09:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 91b1de77684a34e4147ce75aad3ec78f SHA-1: 7803eed539729300673a58cd8f09dee74cde5a74 SHA-256: 8010beccd464ceb575665870fac60b82171dccc9f14c9e0c99d1917c28106ce1
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests it's designed to redirect users, potentially to phishing sites or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links and compromised hosting points to a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mx+player+smart+tv PDF link annotation
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_DCE7F45EFC5C3C47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358f5c2dc5c---kidasizobivezuxinusado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/2021951358321015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/taduwopuzupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/41269248980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/8410541568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.info/userfiles/file/latipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/573c49dc54dcf67ce7ba2727dc4b1686/jomenebixajubixepetaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/puxojiniwoniwovewowekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenithmetals.com/files/xofuweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905002701670853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brillimet.com/uploads/files/202109060744025366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupusufaliwegibubujuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasnowosielski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sizetirerekolonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed46a5416a---vowojuwedasevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/33617816752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervin.ru/files/file/32665139336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/17266892823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303b94434dd---wegodapejofesejumuzawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/37351104268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e26c550381a0802ad683ec4a020d202/samusorukaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packturf.fr/files/94014289855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/28182917773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/vobika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webspace.mysdam.net/images/newsletter/files/23957352689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210901171802.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_off0000b502.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB502 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD19 10372 bytes
SHA-256: d0e5b37f737cc20fcf9c124fcc8cd0f72782eb619dc70d94e013167d603532d7
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B1 14272 bytes
SHA-256: c06e0922f84df170133c1aa0f3e19cd13b2ec02a786e6dbcd818a2e578c26dc7