Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5ba18694c814263…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:48:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4534be86da31cb0a5678ce82c3f8dae0 SHA-1: 9445a029be0778dd92c9af4ab063be5780e2f57f SHA-256: a5ba18694c8142637a556b1269a5a7f90d734ba6e7ef764e43fce4cb006a8737
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 extracted, the structure and URL findings suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users, potentially to phishing sites or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/81930164623.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/2772479807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc71fcdd7e6---84155773462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a7d1df997b87ceb06a174ea4d80436f/21198267556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/gavulomoparolopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eprobatdz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54366029253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fba729270---17277606768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklep-pinokio.pl/web/uploads/files/77304206889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161200bd473350---talusuvar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5q8prq5249nnt5qir9t6dubnlm/ligelevelil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/vobis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/9415555446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d919e18b18---55290093621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/35738276123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/doga145l8g9fdud9upfhe57eg5/3404384240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/jomuxoxugekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/47734840059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071008d7a35a---42116187703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff0bf86f0f47e7abbebf41ff67a9c7a/lumipigapositerunuzov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/turajinefekekozumapobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anduong-nhatthanh.com/uploads/news_file/dalavumivezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/wuzefupomisogumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/43411220814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=psc+maths+questions+and+answers+in+malayalam+pdfPDF 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_off0000eda4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B6 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 4bdc2762eb7087f4dbd507ebd462326a13c1550c50fa864b126aac9f6902a375
font_02_sfnt_off00013452.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13452 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8af79ab7dc9e77ee17c6c553c426e2817b34111996abfa2761c0dd6d0b7dd4