Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e9d79c4794263c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:49:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4e2ccb1728887c319a7c6426b306f118 SHA-1: ce6fb53c47cd99fd49124a356d9a2af18c981ed1 SHA-256: 8e9d79c4794263c1878a7da5b45e2d559d9c90f3ee301a5271f2a5439d1da61a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates that the PDF is designed as a link farm on disposable hosting, likely to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=good+app+to+watch+movies+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://phongthuydotho.vn/upload/files/13942851021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cbd78532c3---wemakamepewojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3a372f4d2---natimiworipekowonater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2015.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44343503687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7i9mbi6rhng5hibs95hfr3fj3/vanutenorutepinonadiwowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzsunup.com/upload/doruwotopolezokofigolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gameclub.by/uploads/files/82799429145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyqjsj.com/UploadFile/file/20210904044351030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents/files/bexodon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorinhawear.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/77104875758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbvshungviet.com/upload/files/74411874006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614123ddd2568---76257447900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewogidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnartourism.com/uploads/file/18031593689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stockbauer.hu/uploads/file/subajefadunugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1a486530e---62217999671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/97734384506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospel-pour-100-voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/nasudozafedeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/baroxusimuwenuwivejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm5m39740ela5kp3rdteo1fnd6/57022520474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d236eda7403a87befa1db3dc1ae9f19e/93805918403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369cd200e2a---654241986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/modawinoxovalukiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anbuadidravidarmatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ribokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koncnc.com/genelresimler/file/10156300844.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_off000113d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D5 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 93565ad168af5ac6c69af0c996181f4391640aff21e82a84512b75ba8c068c34
font_01_sfnt_off0001431e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1431E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015b35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B35 10924 bytes
SHA-256: a969f86626f019ff7e42234cace00c16a90323b0b92119c3d02bbf1b8fa988d5