Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd893092a8949e13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:12:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a109d9273edc1b6c65ddd6e52875de1b SHA-1: c8b32f5231c28f45d883461dcb3aab7267e61319 SHA-256: bd893092a8949e134d2c8fc0f525d0307b0d0e0b092683a90b1fb90d5df984f2
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further stages. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/27543718416.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021071916023776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/32582431187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d40ab80b797891d09f1d6699e8d8fb04/65350838809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.club/sites/default/files/file/2251524085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/sikakaluwojuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/92338362619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/veruxejasimapojuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starkhigh1972.com/clients/d/dd/dd83d6d7846a033806cdb512e10d7d7c/File/pivunoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsen.hu/editor_up/18889333839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/08/file/62863817562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc4b8bde21a11c878a92ed1e7aa51d2/xodise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/86172582506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.org/userfiles/file/gerumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6d61ca1028517b148ade87908425524/57591294519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/10573886590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/geverikakuzusiselijelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/zorel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6556d365f39eda8577b0befe3da242/xuwatajorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/73893776580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6640d188b3f47cd171d0d2a1c5cecb30/92915943505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd930bb75a0---vujutebuvedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2cdd69ed8---87559845417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/vujarujiduzoxonokope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=syrup+water+for+cakesPDF link annotation
    • https://grupo.iberia.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39630037045.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_off00011c5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C5C 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 98dc6336080f85fe791adf00aa54b7e6d1e1483d5ee599be47c37a14e2cd42ae
font_01_sfnt_off0001352d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1352D 19280 bytes
SHA-256: 692584acc16edcaf8b3eded281ecd30da2312d465092d7ac6e516fda20bb244f
font_02_sfnt_off000167d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1