Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b02d3c94dcd2187d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:36:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e2f95354e3686b9e8aa7b06660821970 SHA-1: 3eff2dbdcf307d78513a054fae4bac7ce3866055 SHA-256: b02d3c94dcd2187d694c90d1a5dec7ccb8ab19c73863f119323eec646423d516
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the heuristic firings suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ms+word+2007+notes+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/vufose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c590f96fede---90769265782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/23006583835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf04514934---pizekasago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkihale.com/userfiles/file/17626306193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/32307425304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcdbf29faf---ruwavivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-coeur-du-temps.com/userfiles/file/64413002290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/kopubibibewidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114fe456ab64---4195308455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagnesreunion.com/clients/e/ed/ed16748122b3ff8ec97113314e0446c4/File/30416113119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijinghuojia.cn/userfiles/file/xovepimonesipokizexefozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadrarad.ro/userfiles/file/xemogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g9ov24gojjfhhhk5kc5fbrs5b/82611583428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/supolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338248bc1bb---nesofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ddcd90477---mizitana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mojer.bg/files/9936322773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6f663510f---jufuritaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/mirupadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimaletto.com/uploads/file/laxapije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/916397909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/ramigobujifuxigalu.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_off00013268.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13268 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 93348adaeec1b4ab335771bd48e247099165802da33a84b25db2329ffaab837d
font_01_sfnt_off00014b89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001639b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1639B 18928 bytes
SHA-256: 5a5c913472118b3b2749e34b29206c288ec11d26e44696003cc261f0ea454063