Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e13fed6fe64809a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-25 05:56:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b9124d89c2eeb1549c47b5515cd5e275 SHA-1: 02d3ac1850a1476b07d7a2dbbe15ce3519fd1b29 SHA-256: 9e13fed6fe64809a2a6e7f810991e845a4239486627fdabe388b4ebdcc662a4b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating it's designed to lure users to malicious content through a link farm. The presence of external URI and link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stream+tv+app+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422a7294234---kokufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativenursery.net/home/creative/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mezefosemufesupajikatonop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/lafadutawevoxojawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachconggiao.com/luutru/files/44145699866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audidalys.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52558068072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amigo-shop.105h.net/upload/files/51734165854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namhungholdings.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/fukusimukiwetopifovijexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellerisland.com/files/45284724893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents/files/8423125412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/26529513608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/xekenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcstonetw.com/uploads/files/202109200821147488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143ddda54d43---pixogizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45121322524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b0a9e7c3cf---golebifuwexutofugibowole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevelul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/38922021296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.it/userfiles/files/79540185208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mprime.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifaposabijefopubede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/472526ff97be769ab0219282e152feb5/26905242819.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_off0000b071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB071 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC888 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 3ebcce773b13dde3c22cf5f26c0055e46d01c2d37f3a64c55edb6b849b1e7688
font_02_sfnt_off0000e052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE052 18556 bytes
SHA-256: cc82bd25b0bc701b5552ddd224bb78aded0cb85f153381c09c8faa51c27e7173