Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a69144815f4cd059…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 10:37:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c635c420a9090dd2b470387307b51bb6 SHA-1: 74473ffac1e3f03451ac29ba91e48bdff4e234e2 SHA-256: a69144815f4cd0599ad8078d644bfe63da74579a10278af983624bd8415c2186
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam, using lures related to lotteries, prizes, and parcel delivery. Multiple heuristics indicate the document is a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it's designed to host and distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious, supporting the observed scam indicators.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609839a16a17f---bunexepozuximirofop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh8u29tc75f4pdn39ie5361k9v/71111795623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077398eadce2---62324615987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cadfa3148d0358045fbb6e11335d6ece/fasozonuwatozekolaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f29c9c881---gukimakutut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a544af4ddd3---75021837084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/70436967389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78fae7820be132ba6057f09c3ac3efc3/95220872155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/sitifafopodefexapamediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u998uiihhm9lqttl63uneheiba/14684160067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/581cb7aa76023623b25c540e6ab9c35f/71693211478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9415e5b3bb---42529633044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5da7a5ba340a53d0e3ddcadfdf47de8/xonowemumidoban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1aa62800e6---vilulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ef30535b9---48027913052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/75699543434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/52807443294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/fuxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/1679953767609e68105c607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=apply+for+kentucky+elk+tagPDF 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_off0000c773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC773 17080 bytes
SHA-256: fc1db81a8b46539df9a0af112e4394f282ff8db7fd21fff33cc7314b2c1ec841
font_01_sfnt_off0000f413.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF413 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 8e1a78208f267a787d43da94f12231ed7cdfc18d7e60370455f0a17eae1b4867
font_02_sfnt_off00010cce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1