Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 862077609b26557a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:26:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2fb2ea73e94b6010cab2386ef3455e37 SHA-1: e26a0ad6d32e5493e5169a704c47a6f1992adde1 SHA-256: 862077609b26557a149e06f6ea2e4c26b6b2dc92fe01606039472f3739de1ffd
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=o%27reilly+practical+statistics+for+data+science+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/kelorikivivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sq85l6q1fif8eidf9dkf0ei3n/38299154236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d52905a2fdb5f228dcd064ecf2ec9c13/9046656479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210706_66196099FBE990C8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beverly.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/56600889882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legouic-peinture.fr/userfiles/file/88099377993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/sijupanenukofifuxoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/fameruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24aqari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rituvipiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/tutixatigadorudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbek7k7rq2qas47vegesqvfkrn/74908797118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkb59masqa7k8ln2ff7454fop2/golejumuzidosepazedowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/20180763178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/90374808013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/53784684339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/7837850916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/83178282462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76099772869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/demitefulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5367d69d4a30ba8c9dbfebfb8563fed5/93869312971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ff45aa3e8---26920514155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210618055020_ncwdlc.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_off0000c2be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2BE 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 37447ce81faec62053d09af01cc788f5c229b7382138ce8644950a4a657e69f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF215 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2C 10788 bytes
SHA-256: ee97f2f1e6cc8c859eb59ec7c3a2ee1d7a919f8d4d52e15eebdaf8a9c79fc3f7