Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 897f3e863b19d0f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 01:22:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6a06004111e8ec21e446b5e1261f76a2 SHA-1: 64fe2bdb4d3a4ec9518fd95ef1753af672c97957 SHA-256: 897f3e863b19d0f6318061215be6218d6fac13fe2ed918cf01e7a09f63849dbf
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or malicious redirection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code, likely to facilitate further compromise or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://neza.cz/UserFiles/File/23301188024.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://newchat.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/funepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfatreyd-mebel.ru/archive/images/file/menegeparowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersonassoc.com/emailimages/file/sowifukunuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingchucontrol.com/Uploadfiles/files/lizizigegizogurisanumisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/dagobimejipezipuzivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/futugatodewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiochiodo.eu/userfiles/files/pekub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/66037768782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamscar.eu/userfiles/file/92328273492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adetexfoamgroup.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/wadujipukuxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekartltd.com/upload/files/78739055016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivqn2n5v3s1tf2gf47agrppbil/jopokijawijijalufowusowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/73254214774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8d231e9b0---27962035611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsvforum.com/userfiles/file/8157583632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/tinivamezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cf6389a61---47267095344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/56954247571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ed90607f9---rozozizupapokagedoneki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/4377197672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57hoi6kbf78fbfs1pvu74flvm7/1094171003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akekaluck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25243243153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/16151512864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=vip+hack+rules+of+survivalPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d0d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D8 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 7992d589bb405782ea8ceb9236e25c312b4e56741c3dd0c0932ec1e15bc462c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB6 10600 bytes
SHA-256: aec734c6e02c58d080a9520a00f316ba6db5717e9b8209f558f81ee39723800b
font_02_sfnt_off00011620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11620 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1