Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90e29b1b14b73499…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 01:12:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2f44bfaea3b6cfc9ebc73d08034d7ffa SHA-1: b10bc625d4098bcc373a38e90a4f0804464cd8bb SHA-256: 90e29b1b14b73499bf2e1fb8ff65f597686b4bf290537f78632d227715ed182e
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and multiple external URIs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming attempt. The ML classifier strongly suggests malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkjk7u7o75e3kalnl3eijhen0t/vamodojadig.pdf
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/pipigesesimakijojoxolu.pdf
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f138de0b4b---zokilem.pdf
    • http://proreferee.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/penumupajubokuwot.pdf
    • https://saglamahsapkutu.com/img/editor/image/file/75973574364.pdf
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/27577047145.pdf
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixuxawulukobajigelus.pdf
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/3664292354.pdf
    • http://uklearningnetwork.com/userfiles/file/logirobuduvozak.pdf
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/61381715561.pdf
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/9627115235.pdf
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/45246677248.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335ee0b1c5f---sedixenizedelivapu.pdf
    • https://megashina24.ru/files/files/27289151152.pdf
    • http://autostyle-japan.com/js/upload/files/32243339894.pdf
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/36976852758.pdf
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/29069507373.pdf
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/26076009807.pdf
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/30272467508.pdf
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/33978429208.pdf
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/majuweb.pdf
    • https://shriramsteels.in/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7211527387.pdf
    • https://defi128.com/userfiles/files/93686175637.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ogre+kingdoms+army+book+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_off0000bd87.bin
e2257dde19be1205676be7bd6a1cc259533853af8786ce7d23afd17453750920
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD87 19204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eff1.bin
dc6182181fe4bafc1fafc77d6f4738e2deef1453c7c1c18c4a20e21e1552a5df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF1 11068 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010955.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10955 16792 bytes