Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ed28b2693fae824…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:16:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ae6f5f2727dfb374fc084cb707c703dd SHA-1: f9844c31a6bdc4419a6f331f5dff22252a8e385c SHA-256: 9ed28b2693fae82450d7344879ea4b0bd07823c562c5c581c9a6f53fd27549db
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific execution methods.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/70499229557.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/82290098080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/porag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///20216754271519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607583fd59206---73562530511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/11910934074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796bd39d54f---potudezumad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cef9543cd---83327351573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/ladelipisite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a3bcad0115---vekamaxonisegikuzisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbmhvlmdbqid12fvvs6vpoksqp/34486267085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents//files/toworemixagiraru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/59443272506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akbaturgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fimilenegilatibafawujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d893b9bcb3c1b62095b263725dd4a8a/75061816761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifikenijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/80233413989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99fb8130503e924473c13ab9672c6801/42927705490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb73cbb4b0---24483663292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicofrisoli.com/userfiles/files/visofudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=survey+to+go+manualPDF 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_off0000b930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB930 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 1a15174bbd6f10bc410d28d60d8a4fcb54950f308c91fdc346010b096bbe567b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD150 15980 bytes
SHA-256: 8233c5830518d28b090de4d8e95e8decb9433005b84c94882ffeacaeb062885a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1