Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c741f9e0827d2cba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-24 07:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1ccd07e0dd6cca81484e8131df9d084c SHA-1: d6b7955570d85045549512e017f73610a436d9a9 SHA-256: c741f9e0827d2cbaad11d7b12475e4c841f1fc128da5e5b2c16f86ab16a0c7f2
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to external PDF files. Several heuristics indicate these URLs are part of a link farm, with some hosted on compromised WordPress sites and others on disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, suggesting it's designed to lure users into clicking these links, potentially leading to phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diskdigger+pro+app PDF link annotation
    • http://jhdljz.com/userfiles/file/1631303975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://innovativallatgyogyszer.hu/fileok/file/koxerajuvanesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waguxelixudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/16243000656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b725bd21af5ec10b249c46440b8deb8/10538564462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32841879882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxsasa.org/images_fck/file/1631991825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/mapafurimazomobenarujoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/ladij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altstudio.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/29749865247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/64071814251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents/files/3775465383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/giturulamezomela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinesupplier.cn/data/product/file/202193_41216_785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39321742622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614441a557259---tujatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/bavifebariberejunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhygiene.hu/editor_up/gofolapeboladezamemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlytech-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/90746610315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/17339199919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo-jesma.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwuzejepevamukogatuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omeofest.eu/userfiles/files/balika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwsm-hk.com/files/file/numazowivozekawefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27ea8762d217e31b42b743bbeb1597c5/tifisab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinarioassociatopacinidallatorre.eu/userfiles/files/4103072373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdravi-kromeriz.cz/files/file/debelonimerasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/kaniru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c3fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3FC 16432 bytes
SHA-256: b407f60e2f8b9c15dd2433e857b9e400ba4a196245f68bc07533b60b96021e13
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2C 10412 bytes
SHA-256: eae46c035f371742b0d27ddf43803b1c45dcf9de09a90eb8db3b51ba67c8041e
font_02_sfnt_off000105a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1