Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 babeee4721502975…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:16:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b2cbfc5da6565e554b2fb80a2f947585 SHA-1: 1006894eef6442c78686ae442a21b30948619413 SHA-256: babeee47215029755ce3666dd8a6759312d6c25bcf817eaa430d235281805560
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of external links aligns with potential distribution of further malicious content or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2019+toyota+camry+hybrid+xle+owners+manual
    • http://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/12279813355.pdf
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/29193070553.pdf
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b4f416d4c4b91c7b778124bc08a075f/xewukotiratopinazirorom.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df020599046---71172904693.pdf
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e10b0f32916b48fbdbc4d9a4813e8e6a/babemovanuzuvadero.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/465960a0833ce41752ed03ed4c19aca5/63346441824.pdf
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65008061986.pdf
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210720_022746.pdf
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/17628818237.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5c8fdc9c09---bebirukubakobenifenoxak.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d400e57423---rixopifokano.pdf
    • http://polletnv.be/uploads/files/2581794522.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607324a2f2826---90534114267.pdf
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/59057941487.pdf
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rak2i92qb56gbi3rm7nqjv132/45143850198.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/xatiwijukarex.pdf
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609403e620610---roladebuvaxotusar.pdf
    • http://sghr.ca/upload/ckfinder/files/wipetenojadowadobaw.pdf
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/kukutazit.pdf
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105051347194417.pdf
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/43536914833.pdf
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/povazeroneluzadi.pdf
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/65759237575.pdf
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126d258f2b7e---78292638866.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1ce.bin
9e9ac3848b750ab335718e60bde4d91b30e202b864bcc2bd264c65c7b3ca34e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CE 11544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d2f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012541.bin
1cf3b9883a775bf72a62ab2d5effd7e2c41c054ebe0ef9dacef19c66bbf9c9fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12541 17272 bytes