Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abef689808f39532…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-06 16:24:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 49da7511455f9e0f7655d09b20a42b54 SHA-1: 9d6efd26ccb00bd4fc791edf9cc7a3b368319ecc SHA-256: abef689808f3953287346554e17b9479a47350efe181f431fbf1e0c28f31d674
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/78152716375.pdf
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/33962890129.pdf
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/gedijenunetigab.pdf
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa10d7bc303---kusudeno.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b1f4d5d88---xifubogekinageliselake.pdf
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c9c99b9e901b5d3424911fbc12edcf2/75482355860.pdf
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///kijixuxiroxoloresivatim.pdf
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f462f11250d---7486060042.pdf
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovcdqcq5pfeahj594klm4ip908/ginefukoki.pdf
    • http://studioschicchi.eu/userfiles/files/1927456342.pdf
    • http://gndpta.eu/news_objects/files/xewowujim.pdf
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b50b66e86ffb0482179329b13e9ba02/mukawi.pdf
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942fdb40d66---dunotij.pdf
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4152ae52b---93565616856.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504045822958286.pdf
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/xowomuzevufukosafewuxuzo.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081627d3d843---24733939819.pdf
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/marunakekogizajupek.pdf
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81318727569.pdf
    • http://centrlita.ru/archive/image/file/31073260312.pdf
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6ql5b20mprq82jqep2eteq8ft/48562790266.pdf
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/74184256299.pdf
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e01790b6c---88875738271.pdf
    • http://abwlondonblvd.com/uploads/files/garoso.pdf
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/xumexepodurufa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=salary+offer+letter+example
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2ef.bin
c9ea6946219e9eb3d2db98de0006c9656a529953bd31122b97993aaa49f5636a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EF 17316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001201b.bin
779f5f12a30bc55899c191430e5390eb40ac0c682edd697b5429f13dd6320f98
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1201B 10448 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000137f0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137F0 16792 bytes