Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c04d2b221eebda24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-22 16:47:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c06472792ea19fe3da4e8e32454694ed SHA-1: 0efa505e359f3f44c4e6a8770e5f2aba99f6e6a2 SHA-256: c04d2b221eebda24d3ff131fa8da1170d3228ff72d03168cf98ea234a1a69d0f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for redirection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious or compromised sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://thy-environment.com/userfiles/files/wuloja.pdf
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/93099998612.pdf
    • http://superazs.ru/images/news/file/4363507258.pdf
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60770587257.pdf
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e3343363ef31e9934c26241f352b72c/gurabezik.pdf
    • http://fermobkorea.com/userfiles/file/20210905161928.pdf
    • https://cpsguffanti.it/uploads/file/fevajosebiv.pdf
    • http://khautrangkhangviet.com/upload/img/files/23715844311.pdf
    • http://355353.ru/userfiles/file/17115204267.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161433c86ccb30---72556272507.pdf
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13747424694.pdf
    • https://eguiders.com/uploads/gejobalorugob.pdf
    • http://vtdsbinhthuan.vn/public/uploads/userfiles/file/giwadilimozuvipen.pdf
    • https://suacuachuyennghiep.com/uploads/files/gewano.pdf
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec22132b48f5fd3c102dcdd08b9d494a/kulabatasafematugitomav.pdf
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bonul.pdf
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19206807604.pdf
    • http://okvin.org/userfiles/file/wowop.pdf
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/gapofinowewopelifemotaxax.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/54334856565.pdf
    • http://poetische-malerei.de/web/editor/files/vufowopi.pdf
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/kemojezipexetuxotabavivo.pdf
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/gurafudotu.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136496b75d66---54810498171.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=convert+video+audio+to+text+online
    • 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_off0000da74.bin
7a71d85404fac9cc53aee805ff19e6beb0e2563dbf0f77944a6dfa51dacd91f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA74 17548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001082b.bin
aaaf37202e435b8a3c12dac118ed4290b260afdc91954bb953cbd9a92b49ef66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082B 10372 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC2 16792 bytes