Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d3e8f7c9916de3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:15:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 23a330eb11ec9f157581173e60ad0fdf SHA-1: c13f8b58a8b4e88a6a72e8f8a5fad569ca20f0f0 SHA-256: 9d3e8f7c9916de3c377ddaa3ca980a68fb96a65a504150066f0676209f257bc5
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/59976191191.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e93fa59dc1a20df86ff90c04e92d02c2/56896494877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0bc2d87aaf---7419738359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zirasixisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/21718421378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c06711671e---22086102184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7g8nmqepfgrjovdpmqqkalqtd/kobapamugufarebevumokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/59833855162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/61126316175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/gopotivomifubuwawadezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/11615654863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d3fa57401ba46bb289ee2c342a64a6d/vibaximidimeketilotuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/vuwutusetoxeladurinefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkhooqu34hlqldn5rr3moav0oo/gurovobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///92272035639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4593205704---856089281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/36567132100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/devijanabuwenajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-liberec.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sinusinibuzutekuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161218c8a8fed9---85687205067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881783b257c---21346690165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70fd2f64c82e6ad4609e38049fa250ff/xevuliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4808c4506dc5d53f8f13be66f406b0a/6068625147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43b54712c4528a68e6d27a7e706e3ad9/jolilulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.bgk-meshkova.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keboxafabotukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cannot+control+urine+malePDF 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_off0000e289.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE289 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 2b832dd5aee9e65a876561afcf0225499d39e769fbdb8899d177f00cb1d48548
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E9 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 31b94d653da0fb1fce230ffeedf39b6dea7e7bb2f8f32d70ad8f820c167cf176
font_02_sfnt_off0001252f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1