Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c611a824a63b0eaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:46:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8c4be1c58b02fe109dbfb69b13e4f6ae SHA-1: f2501e8acd27ae3501b170222ed6101bb5c3081d SHA-256: c611a824a63b0eaf58de016df0f06f95d4ba93aa07566bd50d50a3b8c1fb903b
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for malicious redirection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of external links and the PDF structure suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6574012622.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609951f2c69f4---60578665435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837c2ccac11---2364451893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/tawalenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/64753311603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b821c64faa5---limabujapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/44136562494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/21450433299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/guvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/zogapawisugujuwilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents//files/fotenugedojumigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210702024553833891490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps-chiptuning.hu/userfiles/files/87494768179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poetische-malerei.de/web/editor/files/fuvukikekokujawedofir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wahluenfty.com/userfiles/94379100844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/703115257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/vezag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/949e73b106a27cb121c5c56bdde65c57/jebinovedapozaviwefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/jikutilupinemifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161158378dbb30---46901232357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usis-consulting.us/uploads/files/84918459185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2207a3747c7e2fb378cfc46b734e4dca/medajuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariacittadivignola.com/userfiles/files/7118300147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netkat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40542145185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=team+player+examples+interviewPDF 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_off0000e4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FD 18464 bytes
SHA-256: a5879b57199c5716cb572d8998b1f518f3cad10e42c5f6f3644a964858c364df
font_01_sfnt_off000114c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CDE 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 45cc6c2fdbeb525bc60b28475aef8ff9d11bb972234c7032064ad5d7adc2c6bf