Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca8b417cd4ba0a86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.5 KB Created: 2021-08-11 23:43:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 9b8a579652be978efead4735fc8cb134 SHA-1: 0ce693cc95d0a8f97deede1989a15409eb5ce563 SHA-256: ca8b417cd4ba0a86f6d496d68ad043c2b909f284f61dd0812afc61455a57972f
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or malware distribution. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely provides a password to decrypt a subsequent archive, a common tactic to evade gateway security. While no scripts were directly extracted, the ML classifier strongly suggests malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33baf95881e1d87fcbb9f07111edc2a1/56545346524.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudupitujogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/29719062485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a8dd8c3a671fb3f0b2f130edc20b61/zurufutizoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1b2de5158---tozijefisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85f80cac41---97647643540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sp31a63f9itvoe4ktjv31v9ur5/zukilajosexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espressobuilders.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gigesukonupotazaxafufesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kg6fm9idqq0ius17lp51iteh5/73443667683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/65078567778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c53a59938---3998174169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca76900423---57402277349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4e0123c34---semibomupujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/desojomixowagikogar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6455bb9dd---90406278552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef0f1a382b---pinugobasejagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsansapa.vn/webroot/img/files/kozujefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purifoy2020.com/clients/1/11/118d8b7ee1ea4bab8fb19da95c56260f/File/11879348519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611196a83071a---61883965592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64825874258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f103c75b70350c44a1e9782f93bbf780/liwafujonesofije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/zetodajagexexigoxobariji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbeyoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/javix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/47865774060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/31260540453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=booz+allen+hamilton+2013+the+field+guide+to+data+sciencePDF 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_off0001373f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1373F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014f51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F51 18664 bytes
SHA-256: eeff292da3630fc35d2d337991b6b2e5dc80cbbd54388be9e0ce9528a8eb9d5d
font_02_sfnt_off00018066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18066 11500 bytes
SHA-256: 11474bc4df186868a169db811c930a3130b70386c0840efda4cbed82445f7601