Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94ff05c61f26f107…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:30:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4bb80de081fd144bfd104f421cbb6039 SHA-1: d404e1c4afe40d88df0c6b42ac1a207c3cb0edba SHA-256: 94ff05c61f26f10733e115ff579244810a7bf6139986198448ea401919a235dd
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristic firings suggest it's part of a campaign to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=classify+organisms+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca8b8d564b07cdfa00c713a8a3610073/9027540518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f508344577---kijadomagitaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgewongdesign.com/gwd/upload/files/sogemakenerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qi26o0rvsbcmn92eb6jf67bqp/favevoxujojeposodisunikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/99023932222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/33181620551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e91d5467f---86122314292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/72172377013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a213942b0---70848189020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/60741229151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/kapupetedomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovna-krumlov.cz/userfiles/file/buzepefasurunijifuzaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/vedisawisipebegetuwusel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-pointpro.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77040753628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/16862279205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s2t9rmsdaiart8ani45q826b7/23074183069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austintownfitch1980.com/clients/879833/File/zomudonarize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhaphangmy.us/upload/files/kazixuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/surojeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb66ac30f9286457d474491d6f2e3879/11877972926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/gidumurigesivekejiwijuw.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c44a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC44A 10984 bytes
SHA-256: e4b951ff7a73bac0b037a4ad011d21df8f28641a3ec9000d29f05e9e26536f56
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB4 17704 bytes
SHA-256: f1d786d9a5302669a624aa367a9399ce87bfc843cb361270a99019c0d466e2cc
font_02_sfnt_off00010bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1