Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 818df31a7b96e202…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 18:12:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 11e0cccf240fd2973da751e524caf33a SHA-1: 4c5b8b0d88d7c33275b339917af09f14d0631b5f SHA-256: 818df31a7b96e20261a7c6aa86563d70c4c2ad6052082bcc2c332aef7343fc8a
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and URL distribution are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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=gacha+life+mod+apk+file
    • http://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/dubikotegedupasisiz.pdf
    • https://spandoekland.nl/userfiles/file/65364390158.pdf
    • http://intersonik.eu/upload/files/vogejojinurolerawedidepow.pdf
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/zinibixuzevudo.pdf
    • https://threadworx.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/12276349988.pdf
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a94b0da87fd769218590a9680c658df/rowutabavog.pdf
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vejopamewumovodemer.pdf
    • http://vatlieubaooncachnhiet.com/userfiles/file/9529057007.pdf
    • https://seas2010.cienciaevida.pt/site/upload/file/dinakolajanita.pdf
    • https://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/86183052524.pdf
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/2080897221613b9148b851b.pdf
    • http://sxnqx.org/upload/file/Fl202109110421357412.pdf
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/57642912853.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03cc068f0a3dce4817ac3614442c40bc/29193014556.pdf
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/jeleronamexaberitosogexux.pdf
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/neruzugadiva.pdf
    • https://semut73.com/contents/files/93439310569.pdf
    • http://js-space.de/userfiles/file/fizozesogunomadejefevur.pdf
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/10557216264.pdf
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/448af9a45835568c659828b6500520cc/18821042821.pdf
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35473465160.pdf
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/zajekifezibozaxola.pdf
    • http://kristiankutschera.de/userfiles/file/lovekesuz.pdf
    • http://www.biogreeno.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95390324227.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_off0000b910.bin
882dcb9b40e9576b7fbdcd40cbdb61d2b59dd7ffcd7dfa75b2ec70ef3bafcc09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB910 10544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d108.bin
c7a23bad51b18d417fc0cbccd6eb1b5c11f4289c1bbb6e24008a2c05d1646108
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD108 15712 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8d6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D6 16792 bytes