Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a076eb33e23b35e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:10:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6f502401fbecc467c9fe4e5e1e8a5cdd SHA-1: ce9714f8071b1929c67365eb2b194d63d2f14c17 SHA-256: a076eb33e23b35e5af84a9a985e3c428a90261838287a865459b1b9d10097f47
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of external URIs and link farms are common tactics for directing users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mlops+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://twinscooking.nl/twins/userfiles/file/93490926936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/litefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5449f5152ac2d0a2576e1b7bc5171cf/xenozirevupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matao.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/8617254261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed7011c682a01f8ad8525b1e1c6d3185/58305580380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/nolilarunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/98268848910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f80f23889f15d5c543af7ad1fa6675c0/1484118600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a3f6d2c96---67344542733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hlj-vibration.com/uploads/image/20210908/files/20210908102851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinko-tw.com/UserFiles/file/xiwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/40930886450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210916003513164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329f10288d5---43977231011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/01/97042097835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/sogabagesowesoxizibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mevedutazikegepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021951159358420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c3f09d4fe---37703807321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c8f2598e194fcf5095c7ebdcf8ea447/34555353837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/sulubazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorbolivia.com/userfiles/file/62369350230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcpavpos.ru/file/82212538968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32303542352.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_off0000d82c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD82C 10028 bytes
SHA-256: 44a8c13f5d8fed1bc07497db2e91d865568f298721d08ff5eaacf25bcd8b49ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10660 17480 bytes
SHA-256: ec263b73acfeb8c6a284e5a275b83a73c235ff5417ae67be4557ad05e14f04ea