Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a2bd962dfbbde71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 17:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b4ad02c2437f91c0f91bdea473aff7a0 SHA-1: 0251b1ab2db6a55c0ef6a0da794b52dbd5783c35 SHA-256: 8a2bd962dfbbde713a99450736b7f3be18a216a2535d8f18bb0da30e6885a720
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hardest+exams+in+the+world
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5a6b8a0bb---dulijerafinawulekapasobe.pdf
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/petile.pdf
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607722f174493---59612797121.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed4dd246b0---pelarezo.pdf
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b056cb33eab---vigigadugigi.pdf
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac52dc0019c---bepitapuk.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2d844ec3b---26656469721.pdf
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/315e49c2ce9486bafab72cfff01996b9/giwililibexaduzuzerulat.pdf
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/61814443466.pdf
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/76766866549.pdf
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa21303de2e---tozobivuwukupidaj.pdf
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c672dcfba---83042046757.pdf
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/zixivekimozapekajipisig.pdf
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/61011340595.pdf
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa91993db9b---zajipoxelagamarenuka.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/265c250013662c2bb6af781a1da050c1/72423017969.pdf
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13372205ef---46057156079.pdf
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ba9b28b14---69218497548.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/116acfe1c6420251d0ac9cb4d945b943/12891801247.pdf
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/13612033036.pdf
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dffaf9f05607b104bf188f8d84898a3/40914864304.pdf
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/801c6c4c7428c96d55ea3aa2e0714452/jofir.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_off000108d0.bin
f893bd195f27c69f137621de4d8265c10b554cef92848c032a20912660eb2688
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D0 16900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000134c5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134C5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014cdc.bin
f5cbfaa0ce52a5cb17d7bc879ff2f7167c4912a303784b180fab735ad37deb1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CDC 10692 bytes