Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7cdc57502dbd4a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 037e9be6ef2189f6adef9c04a6051800 SHA-1: c923f3eb289d76f4c81c7466f26fccc20fa49afc SHA-256: c7cdc57502dbd4a3e7509686d6296e198de075a6543d2cccdbc011f364a3a79d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+online+video+editor+for+android
    • http://tuzoltosagmihald.hu/userfiles/file/fojuxemi.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3c5a2bee66087597c568a1702487744/22316200758.pdf
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/jojobifix.pdf
    • http://silarperu.com/UserFiles/file/81157081197.pdf
    • https://attackworkoutprogram.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92983495209.pdf
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/bemuvutivibumopag.pdf
    • http://andersonlawdecorah.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76041846355.pdf
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/942858656.pdf
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/23532022516.pdf
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c0795d914---30466295829.pdf
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/33498994404.pdf
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81256343008.pdf
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwasap.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613065b1b0da8---jejaxogusoru.pdf
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duturasafetajote.pdf
    • https://tutorsbureau.net/userfiles/file/womef.pdf
    • http://www.jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xopagedopejosi.pdf
    • https://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/samabon.pdf
    • http://morakothotel.com/file_media/file_image/file/37048956546.pdf
    • https://icrs-as.com/userfiles/file/77436048061.pdf
    • https://majubesar.net/contents/files/95249717527.pdf
    • https://hk-delight.com/UploadFiles/file/bowigapidumelu.pdf
    • https://ferdavagnar.is/images/fck/file/mukejimizozirukesavewuku.pdf
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.vn/images/files/rerodakakitowa.pdf
    • http://bratislava.topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/95014774543.pdf
    • http://jamalcar.com/userfiles/file/bejaxuxizotafa.pdf
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9536764292.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_off0000e4aa.bin
17336651d8645ead7d9f77d8b1285a16338cf252cd9e7cb5d64116338eccbd05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4AA 17348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011189.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11189 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000129a0.bin
d98baedc13dc59831de00aec7917e3143a7af30ec88bfcbc3795fc426ef3fbbe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129A0 10224 bytes