Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bada70e3114b667e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:52:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 23a51259318d997ed7dbfb1b6cdb8b82 SHA-1: 76fc7a2543a0d1ee6b954608f16bf4cf8bbc699e SHA-256: bada70e3114b667eb4ce644ceceff7151e2265fbded07642d1387d46f64d25b8
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript streams indicates potential for malicious scripting execution. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+movie+sites+that+work+on+ps4 PDF link annotation
    • http://akiisushi.com/uploads/files/vivefebakuxazuvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb0da9c557---39504537988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snf.styleguides.ch/userfiles/files/9894594037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383e11482a0---8660468430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/jirimezogoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puwejeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210917011702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckyfood.itweald.com/uploads/files/614272a195594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fourfoods.com/images/files/52189758901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanlacsclub.com/ckupload/files/likizilegepumivuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/jewuvawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viktorina.ledoritulys.lt/files/wezetegerozuloxomajilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipkeo.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91890988089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b16448934d---wazorosuwomilix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgunbey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/pimuwuduvojajotojizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://et-auditing.com/userfiles/files/9906976641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ericshartman.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kedakaratabosuneje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunil.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/83430491763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/bevibaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/vujevimamalotolulatigiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://share-world.tw/userfiles/file/sarevigujum.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_off0000e087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE087 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF899 16256 bytes
SHA-256: 74ac55fba96fd7367d3c61cd907a2b3aeba03ef42ecca2ea466c0ff6eb110331
font_02_sfnt_off000122a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A0 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 6c13928acd5a0b8408e8d52a791b06f3216d8a56ffcc44ec4462d0c2e6311d73