Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91ec5b2649247bbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

165.0 KB Created: 2021-06-11 17:47:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d085971b61c3eee3acd8c34e3e12b814 SHA-1: 4456b1e1ba5f3d8eca592bc5f29ec01d011196fa SHA-256: 91ec5b2649247bbdd775edaa65bd0ba64ec186c1910f3a4dfcd32baea3b2846a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites and appear to be part of a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to "geometry dash apk mod ios", indicating a potential attempt to trick users into downloading malicious software. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=geometry+dash+apk+mod+ios PDF link annotation
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fc1fb13b68374d8a94e1e943d47b131/23492332526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/wajirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vaqrc2lcoqns411qkhvtluvn36/78588114109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5j4miflget0pormng8q6eatd4/gesinojudarorakanuwira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef3d94eba1---sajegudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/44615711470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/julemutopixijejomukula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944e7070725---93069448415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3908hu9o6d8tn7hpjgeeib5on/82091290759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/zitunodisunuxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd85d56e06---76242685108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21366338243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20togaou6aok0fqmapk64tmvo2/kenizovonego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2d7652706c3e3e0138d1322df4df7d/nibivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0002064e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2064E 7744 bytes
SHA-256: 0b19586bfa812291ff7375c4c74ee1378a9e802c32c57eeb039ff871446bda01
font_01_sfnt_off00022077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22077 5048 bytes
SHA-256: c0273eea908baf3088695afefb027b55c70000af53a0eda8cacb77848174f14b
font_02_sfnt_off000231b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x231B0 16504 bytes
SHA-256: 689c5db2c275ae1f718426d98cbcdd420407b3cc700fd886c82e7466ad7825e6
font_03_sfnt_off00026246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26246 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 18f56b7fae04e07bc119a468ad323bdda099da77b0772854d1c47cc1f39b9f3b
font_04_sfnt_off00027746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27746 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f