Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abf9c6388a6f8794…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 95f05e6d1dbd2680b12da8a8aae04a1c SHA-1: 55598781dcff64b0742a90dbecaefd6cccccd92f SHA-256: abf9c6388a6f879458e015a7488cb03e3598e7fc0708165b73cf8c390270c580
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=worcester+boiler+manual+greenstar+24i+junior PDF link annotation
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/divur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongphuc.vn/userfiles/file/28007352522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kujs63b48scebtu13fm52bctg/63239326065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df90d662ea3---dixinesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/jonitinuwopinitibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/leladetaxenusafamufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/16196644791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ea4411997287c6fb9e8404e615c35f/tifiparep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b8065176acd63a2ae48616f8c128a5/zupevesoxigelanuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund-sro.cz/UserFiles/File/27669258773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b173c4022484e9155ac455c84a263cb/jowazeketuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba339588329---nijuxiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8a0a5728c1755b198bb05d7468990d9/gipumokamedovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa76c47b89cf441477c349791bee2a57/fuserudisabexivupir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/20391035360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.com/userfiles/file/91504636192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadcnaeutgftohcogh8i8dsc.xn--p1ai/pict/file/13276820755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leciv.fr/uploads/FCK_files/file/vaniduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4ca943fd591e0a2f240c7023a8ddc0f/62629845832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbrasoftware.hu/images/uploads/files/15283067918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e37581f582---75129187752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/fikajujarazasujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d7fa0a688903562192f823b5ea0ede8/lunurokeveduzas.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_off0000ca4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA4E 11136 bytes
SHA-256: c3c7eec8f0c89231721d74a84fbf80f188e009aec55b36e8bf30c5b729cdcf2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE457 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 38f6d85a0823433be6f0e6033732b0174a2e4208c85da7b5a1bb482c05343e63
font_02_sfnt_off00010fc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1