Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 808fc100713f813d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:11:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d8c4edb7cfeb7d614103a95dbc09c332 SHA-1: 51ac91011af28640a08aa75ffdbd00dea0152b94 SHA-256: 808fc100713f813d361deabab2d6a2834b4ddb777fd811df1c91f42de347b7f2
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the numerous external links are the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=current+affairs+in+zambia PDF link annotation
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/886152daf02e8d847b82736cab64c083/87044495622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/65205479954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb3228455cf04badf0b6389d235ac923/12234150891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db9906bd8dc263e6007a679a2198112e/67599186677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/38118496576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a830394239b---16856773075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uc63ovq7umf21cutnmpt6diop6/tuxatujomawedukutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/bidimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pms5e6td65eor32617d78tiil0/gumuresetitukozatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfcc4d312b88dcb98be39fa60055b39f/ladarepawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/49215154484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giprozdraw.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajikekebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210513211459741960129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-9/20210509215514409020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://100tmt.com/uploadimage/files/20210627155412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/fojuvavosudilebotililivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/52871287365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086940165ee9---73580451362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021052809081573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b9246a52a---7352213596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25fqr6pl0sqekv89ub5lv7jtt2/49720308781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/97590076423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/55098225801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5fd2eb8c2288ae394573d8fcecd057c/55259971588.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_off0000eca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA1 10540 bytes
SHA-256: ae9623cd0f40a9d918a4aae717e7449cceb4705892a6305fb4150ffde9926c1d
font_01_sfnt_off000104b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CCA 17356 bytes
SHA-256: c129377a9ac38e869f1c5fbf6cad9df17c24006cd4f129c3b33a5273d4d3c495