Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcc8b6c710b8ace3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 23:04:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 71c021da595c2be3ec8ad3b0506b4944 SHA-1: e625acea717e2491a9e68bf1dc9a9c065981f050 SHA-256: bcc8b6c710b8ace3aeb1a232d0bdd261af1747562dc3b488841b0833795186cf
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics suggest the PDF's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content hosted on these external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/10526577271.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/farorudesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage3.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/48515333303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/31042317560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/dilopefidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/gijexixikisetefudodudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susutour.com/userfile/file/kafubimutagoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariopisillibertozzi.eu/userfiles/files/lebujarujiwepijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b72fa5a670---57431685639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/38864642878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a2a814612a---57521340489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://distant-property.ru/fck_editor_files/files/87598441696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borgopitti.it/userfiles/file/81441386075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sewabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/bemusagosotugos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46125282745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104408017.linker.tw/files/9849511102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbaytag.com/resimler/files/48792088905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/58847318157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/34863700360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/15308935822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/65716271087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugerwafers.com/demo/ruger/beta/userfiles/files/33617226501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingbakerypans.com/userfiles/file/jizodulil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cf663453ac---50071015481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://language-coach.pl/uploads/files/25900763508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=1000+free+games+playPDF 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_off0000b019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB019 14616 bytes
SHA-256: c8403aebddb945c0b09028b7472a72dc923a8892128f5a37b87bca8dd5172ccf
font_01_sfnt_off0000d474.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD474 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 1f11711912923a248bd5db11291346480b4c566be3c7990b405051bcff56ab54
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1