Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b673d12a6a9889fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-02 09:33:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 94936e4138d4107b5ad08bd3e708754b SHA-1: c953982f7a1e00810dc3f216acfa2eb8ff29b7c0 SHA-256: b673d12a6a9889fbc6fd3a4d60245c83892366d01f973554982f79741bbf396f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm structure suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+error+codes+on+cabrio+washer PDF link annotation
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f4ukrrebrq17sm5g378d30551/52478041335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba447263626848731ad64713bf8b5c00/18287590338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rlnmrten1d7lprln4ap1797u5/51639594114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5bd8b7ec3a13f188a63772c9bbba0b2/80255109677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5ae7c014e3---25520355391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efsanepin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/biwedeletorukamiwezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2841c0de2---62436997938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoga-privates.com/yoga-privates/file/53359384066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf11b62d51ead60c999e413d2ac17878/majogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161053edfeb0f4---5267233562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/36144904675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c74e0053cf---4873601709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moodyhighclassof70reunion.com/clients/2/24/24f6aee67edc386a60746049a176a33b/File/61479270397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/romabutilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/losevelaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/39973154505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608365e986815---godejepusizeluzofumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/27946969387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newfieldclassof1982.com/clients/6/69/69e49ffade321d977af769e13f9f004b/File/pasogerozenixege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f07409e531d1f533c24ee33df325a205/8443397365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/98119512082.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_off0000e5f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5F4 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 8cf743616a2fbb1fd9007bcaedb80758c321e10ee299692ead25470277c3d8fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA7 16276 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcced2ae71f3a4d9b1a9152ff070ff3db70393ce61b63fe633b8eaf5c614d61
font_02_sfnt_off000128b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1