Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6dd2476dcc621d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:54:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 818817732d2e28fbbd6ffca409e5745c SHA-1: f0ce169a8bf2626c76e98e6992bd8cf194d5bf42 SHA-256: c6dd2476dcc621d874196dde55324aa795b241ee89e0bc15d7a1e793e4f91024
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of multiple external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

Heuristics 6

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=metal+slug+advance+gba
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/72064989259.pdf
    • http://indigobaby.eu/upload/files/jetuvagibaxogerodet.pdf
    • https://xn--23-6kci4asohe8k.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/19703576045.pdf
    • http://border-collie.ru/sites/default/files/file/35325933525.pdf
    • https://centaur.vri.cz/docs/files/sozetujof.pdf
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413a8858d23---33145424185.pdf
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/6384169666.pdf
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/4560273508.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404ed088f1d---pigijavuganitama.pdf
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/31804833469.pdf
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadavibelivaferu.pdf
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210910_065436.pdf
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80406459959.pdf
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_FD34534E3A75E634.pdf
    • http://www.smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duzotozifojixugokurene.pdf
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/fawisisanewigepikinuku.pdf
    • https://pastravariaizvoarelebratiei.ro/images/file/bosufazetodinogowajaxer.pdf
    • https://www.fyna.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74871790834.pdf
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/tokajovuwuzi.pdf
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73300020900.pdf
    • http://mail-business.ru/uploads/file/xakuguwokirexolebadije.pdf
    • http://erulingua.hu/uploads/content_files/files/warorawof.pdf
    • https://planningpvedh.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43199045709.pdf
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/93878886262.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a5e24ed6ba3195c6291af18f5a599ee/48836325200.pdf
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/kokuruxumavojimatusazi.pdf
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/42797762998.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_off0000b5d5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5D5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cde7.bin
f8270aa80e1eb435f579c7750e01d315d48ed3571f7c276fc5226c0e7c1f24c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDE7 17668 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa80.bin
a5fa960a92f74ca67fc58136c5139ae328cb4075f5f1f39898668dc21a016f21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA80 10532 bytes