Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81580dd94625fb30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-05-27 20:54:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fc164dbe6dee6fefc1ec0e1c257285ae SHA-1: d3848701766d06fa703266c1c4bbef5153a1e4a7 SHA-256: 81580dd94625fb30bd7dbb4192186678b77da49e89a537a94baf9f0abbf5608c
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK heuristics further supports the malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to video game statistics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+max+all+stats+in+fight+night+round+3+psp PDF link annotation
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3881fe61169861f4af19388748640327/rawowotirawokizimekegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5177cad8643236f704e34311f4b4620/28082558642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/gofewiruxowakevesoxeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831f0a28b13---24874797211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd0a0b9dc2---89553672612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ab299b73e---tikuxolotutexizuliwoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2182c225c---bamezepoteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/kivotetudejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38f9ceaba194ddf94aa5c39cc43b6302/36126900348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/pafevifalejidikeguko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vllcmvn5v0sgs2kfss7p29mqm/90816569738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/urmj1l052h1q3ho9tmek5io0v7/98974309439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bf066296374de3813d3fa598eeac8bf/wixulopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56924264d8dc51c96593ab7ee563eb72/31734303613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c45c810fea---40357669589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094cbd4ecbb8---bonijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1u6sg360u61lv7lc0vknt4vqf0/16130902178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD605 5740 bytes
SHA-256: 848ba797e50f9be57f3db73439bf9dbb698292b379b1b2a87c41bed567e9e70c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE974 10704 bytes
SHA-256: c7a36be9ae78ae6bb5e4a51bd78414561972f13cbfddd77c2ec23212cda566c3