Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ff83026f66220ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:54:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f40e7d20c4210fba52173b658021bed2 SHA-1: 0e3e90262ad0c8d92d0649e4d23211e187fa8de4 SHA-256: 9ff83026f66220ac310c910b41821204ea943c03b878736cc99111a4202ab90f
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves a link farm designed to trick users into downloading a secondary malicious PDF, likely for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9858

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/zamokatus.pdf
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e600e775e5f4c7689f0405cd20a818dd/42895619463.pdf
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao0r90rf2fg9j4g5bpo20pl441/15311029981.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ca76dbe610131360c0e670b66cc348e/24065384056.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b222dd0a3---89728737672.pdf
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/74712852975.pdf
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/44751189777.pdf
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/miwugawofemefu.pdf
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d096aee3f---16659239882.pdf
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/64183280530.pdf
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4jg9mcp0gq3v5f2v3fmks9m70/nigozef.pdf
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f431a40f0---81112166884.pdf
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc9998d76f4ea262344d305b20506a6e/zokamidokitoxosaxovuvalu.pdf
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/nuvagolidorazivukokewite.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607243f9d84a6---88812557607.pdf
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a28c8e0e5d0ab1c37461261ff21d2881/35369098285.pdf
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3558edf29775552d456aea3967844c6e/vevatuxudalutativugadi.pdf
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/55039840511.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe04e6b262---dazizaranobogigija.pdf
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/67886274446.pdf
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecd69c99e9---11815283469.pdf
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f43597f001---22826315377.pdf
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9a15mdg12uu1vpanniv53lhn4/torivotiku.pdf
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/nusukawikajisuku.pdf
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc482d34c8422f2a074910817525768c/rowovigovamodikilopor.pdf
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qfi2561sfrdbrvigsdjkuh68u/lokopujuwijunufiga.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ring+a+ring+a+roses+fishes+in+the+water
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017a70.bin
465a58cf2fa89151c8933cbe134a44b69c5a87f650eb2f7e645a2586f917a5b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17A70 10576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00019298.bin
18963f8e0724daf7d41d6b44d6922154ab94e64c916d0a37266f0de26497bd85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19298 17888 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001c0fb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C0FB 16792 bytes