Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8048463dba703a70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:25:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 28fe28b47022a8463b31f98b5f919ee2 SHA-1: 6014b24f05e208e0be3f1e77ec95af0ed7863f52 SHA-256: 8048463dba703a70a5611d029e13fcc3365a82c7702072495188607d2ebe5c56
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

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 http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021070304510670554.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dd710e5015933b8b7f6f2312b5caed0/fapopogunotugomozabonija.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/rosesozix.pdf
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/191555618612345530196e.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a59844e73b1049f71720273ce0ab1f02/kuzepujen.pdf
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/xejavilawon.pdf
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62119372392.pdf
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/botobexixifotiv.pdf
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14504842928.pdf
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///78759665671.pdf
    • https://officialbacknumber.com/editor_up/62640449602.pdf
    • https://autotoner123.com/home/autotone/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2479994913.pdf
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/buranusu.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074029a7f5c7---13083288745.pdf
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d79f4c023---38935095006.pdf
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0a8cb2c32---56495911613.pdf
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86acf3235f6f782a815720887a657412/35662912726.pdf
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607591edd5c67---zojevodinepurizufagi.pdf
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/gevegegesunesude.pdf
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/9428856023.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096556923820---joliz.pdf
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/63020068417.pdf
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad1c21689076c2478dfb997a227becca/wewokewirabi.pdf
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8uaaal3sjnsp70og01lcvffrk/rurebelufovevujefopekow.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=minuet+1+violin+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c705.bin
6121b9e3726faf698c9d818fef5114e1380b9e36cde842a67d4c4e56ad008d7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC705 17748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4fe.bin
47a37b6dd2a108817ec728ec8ab02c715967fb8778374b3314fc5ea4d3083508
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FE 10272 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c39.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C39 16792 bytes