Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2ee06516442f97f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-05 09:12:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 527058e581cea0878aab1ccc4d5bdc7f SHA-1: 348cc6325b54b9ec29e756de886d5f010e5e0e4d SHA-256: a2ee06516442f97f0ad9c3ed7779f636ae4e9a9c4f7c5f4b842b795b2d227d0b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly suggests maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs, including one pointing to a compromised CMS upload, suggests the document is intended to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fisica+general+hector+perez+montiel+6ta+edicion PDF link annotation
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/29001975776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/50801489592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45849578953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/94732123439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813bb6c4f75---kawalekugijetapelexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selmanoglusigorta.com/userfiles/file/midenuvexafisukurokep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3be7d0810e---23540092495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ec2e486626557a27b156644b22a5a4/35757272259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31848431293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/sugajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/nulirogawodigavibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e82f838439418cf8986e21555959239/93924588737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b83751636---68921315864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6aa5b88461---4378593190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads//files/202108021946486089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/gigoxejenorixutetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/61302090749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc34e2e5c95b6dc9e00329719193e732/nujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/napumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/60073756073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/losadezaruwijixonefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p210tn72b4o40c5b25ab4ug2l5/jekovojituzixutibi.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_off0000d831.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD831 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 3183c6dfe5991a3e8ff8c48b1bb7137348ae693b9a2748dd5d00756e95b4d9a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EF 18640 bytes
SHA-256: c7b314de289466c24e603eaecd28ac2807bf6eb6a0d67ceedb8166d7bc61f650
font_02_sfnt_off00012185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12185 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1