PDF malware analysis — malicious · ae85d8aec6082a88

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:45:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26

MD5: 1c30085f5db94dd4c0f2f8e73f143e8b SHA-1: f527e83930165285224ce422d32a53d8b357d8ae SHA-256: ae85d8aec6082a881925c14620919b6bc74b8b61d81d39780490a0eea2629020

104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination or evade detection. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this PDF is designed to lead users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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.
Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS

PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=strategic+leadership+meaning+pdf PDF link annotation
- http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087732382092---66144044301.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewofe.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/44410278291.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd43db3d33---80201600320.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://okazionche.com/files/55283148072.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/385a847177c08fd3538f0f15bc101505/58305533867.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ylpqzl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77920539424.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/020d09bff8a043153a22d99e02bbde95/2998622136.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.sphotobooth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768ca898754---72931168406.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://mrybalko.ru/files/gafadanoxujedemopavoru.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca6a6868a8---xosolimelavubutajovami.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://industriefotografie.ch/userfiles/files/51795672294.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d922d4428---81527504793.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://taitung-house.com/CKEdit/upload/files/60547936450.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///6034544939.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/davegezizuxanoxomekotujo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/37281602952.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8b2ce6b0f---67423574252.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lv6no693lvurprn9iug2tjrpo/11397279885.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/bifatisuseva.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608765c0dbc07---45715387.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://tomei4x4.jp/js/upload/files/mukifuxesuduso.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d6bf56d4e---vakimoxufimuxegox.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210814_E7EC153A947A3641.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f8bcaf850---90830575402.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/8544823136.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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000db74.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB74	16284 bytes
SHA-256: `ed2715bc0383fed80f1f9b7c9d400286b7e356df5cf61399c5b76e5f247a04f7`
`font_01_sfnt_off00010566.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10566	11024 bytes
SHA-256: `ebca791f4bee95fa07cc4a474cae8249083cfe75576fa5f5adae8251a6f9c5df`
`font_02_sfnt_off00011e94.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E94	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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