Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a379f91570a81c43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:37:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: dd1f091633a08ebb92d598bbe6752686 SHA-1: f259b29d74c0bdf1d69b152d591d17db2b59c30e SHA-256: a379f91570a81c4310aeb796df37462708548bf231090891547f84779a65fa31
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users to external sites, potentially for further exploitation or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+car+x+drift+racing+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://mocphatreal.com/assets/images/ckfinder/files/tulexojobizilugato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/jekigojodonosojepukikizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/71015395121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhfangyuan.com/uploadfiles/files/sinelonela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f8667f3b1---zebabokudefesisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/xirezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376eb14050a---tiporepewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents/files/belobugimuxopumilitone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/64736083432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/87945571317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://around-sicily.net/userfiles/file/86426809954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/diwozakekejuvavujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamgph.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/131659029815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlschuz.com/userfiles/files/83769592925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-19/20210919145711375120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161434758eceee---30225579974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/92016687613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/69751157628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wigs4less.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/75475227508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/65707898963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5fd42f26c---tibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satuldelut.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kumowefabupasoxodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/tebedejetadimuzazewerek.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_off0000c9fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e20d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE20D 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 534e7e2e10ec9510ccf3d9e6644ebd1e3d6334b227288ae337774085c8bb0778
font_02_sfnt_off00011050.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11050 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 2e5cec107e23465443aff9ee4271485e3c673c1630652c31c210501e2a517906