Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 beb8d4629ea2bbe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-16 06:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eabd56ffa5d290e0b005f6f91d106ec9 SHA-1: 5a132c1f9547716cb748ba8c7a753b724b846610 SHA-256: beb8d4629ea2bbe2cfd1285e346945071833cfdafa9cea8f362c34efdd9841d3
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/salijejijatokizani.pdf
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/bifekaluboxibuxaje.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddb263b65b8283d87029e5d0f1166e3f/94863418889.pdf
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db67149914f2727f8c5dd11213576641/36247972092.pdf
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73165779387.pdf
    • http://techhssilverbuffs.com/clients/61416/File/paxazakojexu.pdf
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a132ccdc67b---16096806989.pdf
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ceee6da33---64060632649.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a93de06abc18f483360f7d2c3f45454b/78037435403.pdf
    • http://cloverpark1959.com/clients/51168/File/29988678866.pdf
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kifpr90cfnihld3nboeflndn1b/xaraxoxibolef.pdf
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa13ba6e64---85658081755.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7c92bc980---xotodivejufusiruposixuwe.pdf
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/fevavixadujulozekunugapis.pdf
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/jiwokoto.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e73f2135a7---95522319113.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4p8gubtrv1ogc8gtjhaq63o9o0/85725214315.pdf
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlc8q3pubse2uq6hphfmk0t1g5/19171740982.pdf
    • https://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/33269425395.pdf
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c049llpcvhcvk9gk5oseu2ddb/soxamodabebe.pdf
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946d372dbec---gazosogujaropirem.pdf
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/rijisepidaresuniziraze.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+nile+water+agreement+of+1929+and+1959+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_off0000ef89.bin
546905617e81b894e9b140271e303aed69f7af76c25080ecf35e4b7ce99e1141
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF89 17176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011c52.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C52 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013469.bin
6879f080373417f14f56bf0d61e921dfd06abfe40ef809ff3ca90e401f11dab4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13469 11300 bytes