Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aadb6f51fd9baa30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-10-17 14:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d93dc04711f36cd18cda188567d042f8 SHA-1: acdf9a5bf2700d78a5b853aa39c982b26d344556 SHA-256: aadb6f51fd9baa30528de8e9d4295e39e26befdc87f309a160e5679473831e69
96 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 disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed for redirection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://isigakizima.net/img/tmp/file/64390233930.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/wufupekutatosemamojoxuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/89057217116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.og2c.com/images/file/zudewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/nomofusipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16157ff832d63f---vekofogonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/37876185808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/vadenane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/37257071401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generoussecurity.com/uploads/nomugutibudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/31315848663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388c13e2039---16550440373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75bb3ea718959b0c7b57488dc26e933d/51385073873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210929_D6F5D9FE53F27B1A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161406905e14bd---5381475535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shieldtech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefemimijemivekemopiwivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11812493031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe76987697---36905358211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jlgardner.org/home/jlg/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36482143858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/9488661001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pachinkoevent.com/sites/default/files/file/51697350447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/xifuweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycondo.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/nenarorawugividos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.casestilistas.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37815885536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landroverbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155c9e928920---kagelerozikaxebonakalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/UsNeCLCzgYg/uplcv?utm_term=android+mod+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000b53c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB53C 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 0adcac5427ceaea2a49928097150060e210fa4510b8a9dc8f8254cdc32ee1302
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC65 14644 bytes
SHA-256: 8d864acf8981df107e2e79c5df1bde2d1209f46877bf9983a6d2e3bb7fecdb07
font_02_sfnt_off0000f12e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1