Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c05ccf92f4b88e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:38:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ac282cc0327d682a2d121ac08955aa5e SHA-1: 1ca01c15f784309c1ac741f95552dc5a7825ff60 SHA-256: 8c05ccf92f4b88e25d3d8ff5bed5b60bbb50a2a26e10d9a1ae8c451128d01335
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supported by heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of numerous external URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=darmowa+aplikacja+do+nauki+angielskiego+android PDF link annotation
    • http://fgsconsulta.com.br/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/butidufegafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livstyle.ro/home/livstyle/public_html/uploads/files/dumevuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/talise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnndt.com/Images_upload/files/28369936934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/92932848954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/50767528156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/navewoxadelatam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161438ef06b31f---36124423126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5974293.pasarantogel.com/contents/files/62529998662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7m-shop.com/userfiles/file/nisebotabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161350e061f1b1---womirenetefapapugedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/16564403217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/fakofategor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d129cc64c78868195f9c51e8d8aff6ef/maxixanujaboriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/33844149133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blgjad.com/upload/files/repixapurunorobaleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/45341080502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lgassociates.in/uploads/25644879943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161398376e10ca---12177114658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2osv9pt2jfpt.com/uploadfiles/files/wadibawotozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/22662344692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42cfa4ewb0a0b3fwh.com/imageupload/files/97648679093.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_off0000d235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD235 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA47 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 7deca3f6729a595eefc8bf24ac6a8bd72cfd4631926049dd508721057b6eedbe
font_02_sfnt_off000114e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E7 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 93ce53e0e92258310448938146f3c2b2593e0b7eb5ddae4989c14ead2f863df8