Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 922d0ae8cdcdfdec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 15:11:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 755b9b0dc051c66490834cde7bec7890 SHA-1: 3f160486e300220a507db3bfc5541ceb31efd75f SHA-256: 922d0ae8cdcdfdec34bc1ebf497c0a7c46adb2aaaa94574116f0c77d5a93b26b
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a potential SEO manipulation or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/24835460802.pdf
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec6d1e947bd6702d957b754ce5125e3a/belovez.pdf
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/nepizamev.pdf
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/gisenudunezuwo.pdf
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dq42trcdtqdblb49f8cvc8ohmv/fazivemakowuv.pdf
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/fafinigufogegu.pdf
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/52162581485.pdf
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/35508542877.pdf
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/77101280761.pdf
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/sireboreminanimorute.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff6bb5377f---58782659833.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a97b7461bb---24233174586.pdf
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/vonasadalodojulo.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b3415723f---xunute.pdf
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c071f006c93a14c2ca55a45390cd2a/sijanorewilajufekuno.pdf
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/8527387839.pdf
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ojr8j1avrhmud8b5bkost89bp/wupubawaseduraparo.pdf
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af6b69e631b4fa32a5f9d1e1d49fe746/posafuzinatarutovikoziw.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1kpargjhprusr1nnfs7c2r7j1/67995750229.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e83c7a2f39---21888240596.pdf
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/zikomijasosa.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3ujhea4frjbgsiua753da0oqg/zolunitejafivunugikoziran.pdf
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/38965346460.pdf
    • http://stananddiane.com/clients/6/67/672a2699e369d648dd23e03de9deda78/File/72291871216.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=free+show+apps+for+android
    • 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_off0000f4de.bin
b5c9553258582ab31e8d61e3ae13dd8ea770f83488e43fa5109e6d1f3d928288
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DE 10512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010cc3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000124d5.bin
b8540ef3bac04eda00befc5be931c6f5ad58a00efb80728a017007d268819e04
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124D5 17012 bytes