Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98669a26ce9af205…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 01:53:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 338e69f9f41f51c8156f35d1d6371456 SHA-1: ae7548e87e7ddf1dfd161c5676773a4f2753d34f SHA-256: 98669a26ce9af2051a0d41b44060d1f69c0345ca6291367db833982bacd364fe
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/78946439297.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a077d111dd01864f68e4ad73662e211f/38390000091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28b058bb80d5d390e972f98145fcb884/55287831137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/11030522507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b16b8ab68---wilalomudazerorezipitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/fogexegeromipowevexozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7f4af7b7558f8bfa3e07119b862410c/26190780460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee4c505865774f076e60d04ea996f56a/6461579269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88867714e58580ecef4b236db45d03ba/tejaselijigijisitetugabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/tidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0913c989a---73146034681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohensevents.com/clients/74638/File/revesujurakexuwikuseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastmoorclassof1970.com/clients/4/43/4343e427eb1b0a0668350338a4d6b623/File/38392895460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c935bbdaf49---rasemuferewunobomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da381b85f9---43250792909.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
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=amie+section+a+notes+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001adef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ADEF 4948 bytes
SHA-256: 0d54f271065bd7572f7f48b8bd173781b40f7f97f849dedcc1eba8d66fd3d083
font_01_sfnt_off0001beab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BEAB 12656 bytes
SHA-256: ae3e1ed9df913773880b4a1b031946ca878025f0d465ad69121adde134086c3b
font_02_sfnt_off0001e8fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E8FA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378