Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ee2ec8b6f03faf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4e607ff8060173decc69d3934209a925 SHA-1: 73391149ec55b489d869ea08fb4d52668bb27c11 SHA-256: 8ee2ec8b6f03faf40e0233e991e9e8348089d5f7193a8d765ca758e5426c0f26
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern points to a phishing or SEO poisoning attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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 http://ever0036.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210617015710.pdf
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1c4khngitsapi56mkqnpo40u5/70909880929.pdf
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/34052943901.pdf
    • http://plenaseguroseprevidencia.com/fotosempresa/files/44478460822.pdf
    • https://oxfordjsr.com/userfiles/file/fukak.pdf
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/peworoziridojikewi.pdf
    • http://ntrc.biz/clients/f/f0/f0759d16aca5b3dfc9163ee994587b7f/File/84328268665.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608637db71b68---dodilekikuvamepewi.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfqi0p1p9capokjivgjkal4pbi/lizoruzev.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcbd55bc221---39833809860.pdf
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/59182488726.pdf
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/toluturakedimas.pdf
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/mejaxemibif.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608def8f6bd90---97184612669.pdf
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/45683873933.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eadc97faec0d0d17666cc0431fe747f/jirukavitonuzadobazoxubi.pdf
    • https://sharkovinkom.com/sharkovinkom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/272781295.pdf
    • https://restaurantenunti.ro/userfiles/file/josiwi.pdf
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27518327661.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607891bc7997e---30750860520.pdf
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/96455640058.pdf
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/255bc5895541c1c2954d9a28ed27abd7/41165703435.pdf
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/15329841254.pdf
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/110763424.pdf
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84402509189.pdf
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/kanezuvulowo.pdf
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/7174043979.pdf
    • http://www.diyforums.net/i-have-a
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=osburn+gas+stove+manuals
    • 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_off0000c8af.bin
75414b331447c5cbf42869e43462d6d70a37c597567dad51f81e8656d904bfbf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8AF 16888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f44a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF44A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c61.bin
32f08b062d0b0b1708638cd2d12d01f0c895229fcb6364d651b20c6aaed2dde7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C61 10692 bytes