Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93296e3ec7f8c2f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:03:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dc8a9324db16a4ddc3256f01ed3c6360 SHA-1: 38271ea91f0566f971f530ee9c38fd0f60ff7825 SHA-256: 93296e3ec7f8c2f39ed13bb7991c9329c5b4c48d9a2f21dc11c471965fdbe672
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of numerous external URIs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content or phishing pages, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://mides.vn/images/ckeditor/files/93251269517.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/4665688150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/xezarenilusiteriwowuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7be857bf423b5bc6afe5614c156058c2/73427863871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/tujinetelivupopapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0n4g70fa9omm05acur9pacf18/nelurutudamidupuvule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855862a7285---33378959505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1491f7ba30993f79f38692adc135a91a/25273719510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59786009637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210813031250_9y0688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5791359762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servicepapik.ro/files/regotatiridawikegazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84070cff8835cff960330b245f92853/nazuximepagalibifegose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oies7amgucg46uvi6r8gbnvbf/56369325684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3dfuqbd5raks47s18dfqj2mr9/42752157758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/31340902059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbce1e75d8---84348148972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/94441280338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemalipics.com/14629477089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46f7fd398b---2504024472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariancozma.com/_user/file/97482779895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210728_104459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/bifan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b6be02f14---16255692083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.org/upload/files/54693987862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=sintomas+de+trigliceridos+altos+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b6b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCECF 11040 bytes
SHA-256: a95c18e310de278b29467c4e2bdc32cc38bacd1a275fb92ce172ffa4e11658b7
font_02_sfnt_off0000e837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE837 16192 bytes
SHA-256: 8e82e0efa5deeee37b42a17d93f6dbb64872e6eb70d46f778a2ee7dfe3d97cae