Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9766419754dd503…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:55:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0b1daa6b85b8e22e7682644457d4423c SHA-1: 794b4df5f8d47fa3b5d7d57bcc8006cf90d34b71 SHA-256: b9766419754dd503162dfd13909662eedd5dbd94e42190063247ba3ffcab24b1
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/7575942273.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/5924313731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/20046481586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e70a5da12d1f8ddcf03ac59e2d270fc4/94831238224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c170040b671---patefotelalajidifib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66b8605233---kimukawibodude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leilehua76.com/clients/4/4d/4d80c013f15dbe3c797666a457780dca/File/74519627643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/89497925658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d1a0deaedbe11a200eed91c156d030f/mulubimevirokaxebiwofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shihtzufurbabies.net/clients/d/d3/d383cf0c90cf2d2391705d5438694b4c/File/rekatamexefuzusove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097413919686---mozosikatewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f548da4727---xomukoduxani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608eb691dae70---67799647408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1vc05bg5dvvmq7g4ru6qha37c/kajoxazupajovepomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3bddc0f28---xugosofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/56426685149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/xemugifexofizavukugivorut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f90c564363faee63287e9fb64a0c4402/75184074219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b7400fa47---zumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/jazokaroxigonigulaxaradum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talaa-obour.com/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/vaxilisavudavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def7d9645aadccabaea200dc20215d09/puxijupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/15611960556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/47605712981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=hell+is+the+absence+of+god+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_off00011dbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000135d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135D1 17720 bytes
SHA-256: f838bfa99c199110462878a0a4384866690d54ac0cf258a06731dd978263457d
font_02_sfnt_off00016358.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16358 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 64d23efa61950648ff60db7e6279dfc22ed25bcec3afb06e7ee5ffac8e85fc0b