Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2a10d6f8f6cd174…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:50:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4ff26f4da9c0a21868b29b3502d849dd SHA-1: f31ebb26059fca0a57a7867e960201054af3d429 SHA-256: b2a10d6f8f6cd1741ee312524e655a274d5ca01249c5c2af319eb40a86b9fe5e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or domains associated with link farms. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gram%C3%A1tica+escolar+da+l%C3%ADngua+portuguesa+com+exerc%C3%ADcios+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/11277877864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d11922f6d---11083756019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.com/flash/thriftstorewebsites.com/file/nunujimazedowomodadarugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e96b2d602---rajisije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/pajowan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taybaite.com/userfiles/file/ravusuvubabuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/32924458160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://launensia.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bebosigajelunigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/34679907325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7iasjhl3k50hf42nj4m06skis/89192284316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silky.ae/images/bulk_images/files/86970304163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a453daf639339463b9fcf8309afd9e03/lunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/suzusuwotafawup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eo2igsojgolrdd4b34g05tool/mesifosubekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608062ac8d692---wewufikamelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df483b724e1e8897318ed3d4300cf4f3/38302519530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n19ctcatlrj2fs86td6q0e6jc1/55369166769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/larizelafajimukubivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da2f5f081b---lefusulalorizorige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/81239416235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac15a387346---kasenexivanovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs724.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/dibupozujezevosifebod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qrf94jmjmbk2j2e04f4f69vlus/zemaresumokemikaxoredesel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a37257cc90---39475254495.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_off0000c7fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7FD 19512 bytes
SHA-256: 0cd697c7c7bbc908db7c7dfcc5da17a782f96fde5e29a3408a18c0670d7dde14
font_01_sfnt_off0000f82f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11046 11532 bytes
SHA-256: 702f9b50ed9e7df5e5acc16ef9ecd44fd2b8db3fba4169d0df733984e7aba497