Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bef64c80bde2e40f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 21:35:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ba7dcec0bb9e9e4484587ab200e5c152 SHA-1: dd700f4c853fe097669a9996dda5d39884ea3e9c SHA-256: bef64c80bde2e40fdbb324a3f42a39aadfd0521f22d28bcec281f3116d56bf16
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious and contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document is designed as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs points to a malicious intent to redirect the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/85867262728.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/sewimuvuguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5bb2a1deefb5a995b0845df2589810b/venorilesakezerigetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb399d977c7---2264936746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/906a1155e9279c46fbdb10052c44d819/solelupujatikowopizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8c7f9151601dd2a1ed2bad96a975cb9/65611058177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alteredcompta.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vevexoralubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9d77d4d95c86afc295c0b5ae46207f2/31770517464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensacolahigh1964.com/clients/1/1d/1d652d7f5bd5fd2f3712913460b20393/File/72205085928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/19187680131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9i5rorn4kceojg0g3hk95745ng/78030275853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cb559ebdce4b77a5d5c421ead559729/23637382173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/zavekama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rendszergazda-cegeknek.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65827842270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a158813a96---41051053639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/909c0b5cb72a86d9d22a11472b60f453/gebatowetiwixidunubetunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa9fb6ea707c7119cf98d7b038c6c98b/dovemagesekirozoveniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/97925999120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9b06aee79bec69e066db060f71b02d1/55015054398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c77kqkfh6lmrpsunmru937hm4d/rupugukukuwemamonizelupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6j9tgp5i9dsks0i21n4jqb3ci5/17749478993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=genotype+as+meansPDF 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_off0000e4f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0A 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 8aad31897a86cd68dcd99f59ece5ef7cac654e389df769970ea877d7a9088623
font_02_sfnt_off00011470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11470 17328 bytes
SHA-256: ecef2d7384286709d8d084924632171718104108adf637b6c07252c91f5545a8