Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e4e6f9d7760a38e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-09-28 10:45:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a0eea981933dd5b05d1677ab7e923174 SHA-1: 2d327509c43d0b7aeaf44d378b7cdf6a20737faf SHA-256: 9e4e6f9d7760a38eb4438ca1c9472450bd43025b38e324e5f47f33f4ce3ff8bf
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm, likely to distribute malicious payloads or engage in SEO abuse, rather than delivering direct content.

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 http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c62e9f591---84102103279.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/14573435179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/niniligemugofoziwoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/watagosanaligav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevka.topmebli.com/content/xuploadimages/file/vukixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40543da32adb49cc7e8aa1f4737e5377/ledamorisixag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/zekovilanezadiwobigazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c35f60c253---80306848609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmany.cucoriedka.sk/data/files/parefufija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/jeresejaberexevatodedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/turugexolufibejefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/nopoxuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurgaontaxi.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/wireloxefexodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vesimport.ru/userfiles/file/dugikozaxutosuwumunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrcookie.tw/upload/editor/file/161821237952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printjet.pl/pliki_user/File/11221816667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7318687155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/91419020171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodoan.net/userfiles/file/89594050025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvanova.ru/sites/default/files/98524884919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents/files/88440659943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89288139096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhrdbekasi.com/webroot/userfiles/files/bezirunegujapamuwezatire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141a9d5a8ab6---98579141731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=kako+osloboditi+memoriju+na+androiduPDF 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_off00011233.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11233 17748 bytes
SHA-256: cfd7b442f0fe1ef084125faf2c5ed3ed8052385355342ba24ce24db764f367f9
font_01_sfnt_off00013f65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001577c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1577C 10864 bytes
SHA-256: e7b1759255084c4cc3185723d60a4855c7187a5c30c42af2cdc811b23ab4156a