Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b04ceff2db4de2ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-08-22 03:21:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 464f58fdcdc570449b374ef59163fc09 SHA-1: f92191b5aa208622bc29dc20d25b5d883d997aba SHA-256: b04ceff2db4de2baf61d6f9f058567542670f9b7aef7494859e7a5dcff06a58c
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and several heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. While no scripts were extracted, the structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content via embedded links, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://fewo-spreewald-schoetzigk.de/brandenburgtag/img/editor/file/54462799903.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/tojelumarizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/93330175952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210510144237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-7///2021727222504375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92252807454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleangroupbd.com/ck/upload/files/80358395629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/movimazijozelasas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/lerilimerojuvojoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prtourusa.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210803_AC9BF50E6E00AE82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a2f84dec6---20445763721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42355777816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/56198961964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uacu8hbeqri0tg19bo70tgr2n6/79441332529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralgiving.com/media/userfiles/file/losilasowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads//file/62934913658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/55793827441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e3f63cc7b---54008040564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toduxixubukuxexisonozeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/majobegekepus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fb3nhjbc8fmj8ptlbi1nmbj20/dusirunovuxetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd94175265231457d2af82cce8bc344b/56012415953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210803_7D2DDCC82B497E0A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=octave+levenspiel+chemical+reaction+engineering+pdfPDF 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_off0000d365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD365 16584 bytes
SHA-256: d62a6c0a1e9e95b8b4a278811e3510b6e66d65fab72816db782f280709fbbab1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FE 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 07f85cdf3bfcd70ad161cd202e324b1a6438dcc4a192c3a12c88810524071e49