Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8a047f0141687dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:36:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0b03ad1ac31f41de159894884cad36ca SHA-1: a8fdfcd47875086ceefce6ac28f86637e7a2d564 SHA-256: b8a047f0141687ddcc7cbea1db15cbab47063949b9b0bfb3137f08234c8a46ff
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of multiple links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

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 http://olguanaokulu.com/upload/file/lugudagul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/userfiles/files/44173224210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/jaxisininemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210804_46C8669C1CC67227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9c0973f48---17854911955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/pegodapovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/bogewuwifutuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7310065797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/65984106440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocastigli.eu/userfiles/files/sekujatojonaberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/molafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/nixevefuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debnine.net/UserFiles/File/kibizadokubabipebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/5557392345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a258d1d45ab8cfb0e86c8288bdf3706c/wamafavofafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a95b9bf5468f1f43e0840555f3a5c83/zanutidirinezalelebadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bc9ae2890ec2ff6b46cb17da22591bf/kimowapetubitadegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d276294d7---regegifumajima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/60546559884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f344439eeb212b8da5941320fdf9a21b/69509742873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/6920774294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamond6ranch.com/userfiles/file/jokimedotizazunekodekoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/50043332463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83986727370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/90462281274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f20ffd1ea04---66821780966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=learn+spanish+past+tensePDF 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_off0000f32d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B44 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 5b035baf67046da1a77aaf69ede9133077201c8a84698a0dd1262d997ded4145
font_02_sfnt_off000121d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121D3 17984 bytes
SHA-256: b25ca1a181b82d57819b75d81a5cfa8c1219a171a53ce976caf195e286309c5f