Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1c68cf3932599da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 12:54:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7803c627084755fde85e77c626f27803 SHA-1: 7066f8ba52c6557879d2a261f11cc5c7a9d1281d SHA-256: b1c68cf3932599da6b61200727f2b8e9394b543474f00a196aa3fb4c8919f079
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with high-confidence heuristics indicating that many point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and link farm suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://myphamasia.net/upload/files/9705420423.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://restauraceeverest.cz/userfiles/file/20548647209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613304089976b---36852845134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6bd0a24ce---wefozewamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/41854232820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/62440766396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cozycornerexpress.com/uploads/files/budigotuvip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/25694785689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiemhoahaibara.com/data/dulieu/files/peben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/ziruvivawinon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azstorestudio.com/uploads/files/finofifelerijunujoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forti.in/userfiles/file/74586810650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luchetti.it/userfiles/files/kosepuwivuzotowavajalaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54541575959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eggtesting.com/admin/uploads/file/jopiwikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/78358928283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a2f10bf9a---jozudowidakufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://em.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/nutumaritaguguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationallanguagenavigators.com/media/vejamogifofogajanapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133991d5c8ea---1380713740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139810dc5e32---54216314179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dubilex.com/userfiles/files/dikajagoxakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=movie+the+mafia+only+kills+in+summerPDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/14932439294.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_off0000d498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD498 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 669c8e91d9386acf6debfa65e37f751825bf43b55f402d251fc2b49df2a9f939
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10596 17840 bytes
SHA-256: cacc8357108d9817ddde630a76349c63a7cd77f3e84dba04744195f8d60d7a6e