Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 814df8c976d77127…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:31:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7c56096d2d0485d6845a863c100a6b90 SHA-1: a44df09c5ea5fd3d6c0b929cb0f0602ff539b185 SHA-256: 814df8c976d77127c64e0d47ffd6aef70ec716dd90c984e86aa3673052a79b56
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics confirm it's a link farm on potentially compromised infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=class+8+sst+history+chapter+4+question+answer PDF link annotation
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/fuzexekemiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerdynamic.com/clients/3/3d/3d9dba0a3645e5854abf1db7654b9c86/File/vogefavivododadalasarupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3d30bf7703970bd3326fdfa653ddc5b/95575969490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce16ae588c---1861609850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/7868133490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32eedb63e38d5066d5c8fbc78bb1372d/xisekaluwixuxepama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qo1c8e92h20hjlruqk2u90theg/80284387254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3da48b7f8---zenudomozomukupikudivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/readgqh6326ti2ll7vkhlhpg2e/76209234868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2l8af5qbfnrtse0ulcn39s5grn/noluwanisupebajeruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30d9daaf3d---niwaziwamexeverava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/wajubapejujetajug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vojalivez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nao7u565il6mib2b9tk0rgk4pg/nalixazewizalajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210610235910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08b4de07b897e986e2a4b29ceeae1862/nifoxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fc4a49ecc---79546541433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/sowopodibalekabikotiposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078dba9a129b---5049436420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d528510c697bf1e0d47bf10a396841a2/71652106116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qs6ud99muecc7qk1ivqddruj3i/12094288159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758501b3add---tajufedamatazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/33197912549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/16845832013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airtelco.com/data/users/_/email/files/dapofawifesasogata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/vevalawof.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_off0000fd7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD7C 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 293420539db7311df751e84dd20e35f5d8de3a1dbaea56400dc4c5da7019fb75
font_01_sfnt_off000117f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F0 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 7f4c9d682ac618e6694edba01f6559195fa8b4b602cc15d9c22e057dbb9dcd52
font_02_sfnt_off00014536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14536 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1