Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce9e57c0ea9db328…

MALICIOUS

PDF

141.7 KB Created: 2021-08-03 17:53:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8672a23957bad536b7ad95d23aa72bf5 SHA-1: 38c9c58e8b4cc7a23b25d6fa474f0da64be5598a SHA-256: ce9e57c0ea9db3288aaead3236fb1d1434d7b19fbd8e17c4c0f9df57e4f135ee
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting reinforces this assessment. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly indicate a malicious intent to host or link to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/75472321447.pdf
    • http://foxadv.net/file/xuravisimatozanep.pdf
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acaee6460f7---womuz.pdf
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/rakupavije.pdf
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/lalifud.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a4485bccd---9632991202.pdf
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d6155e3397ed762b733cb2c2299df47/dudotuluvizobetobaka.pdf
    • https://www.rongoldmanlaw.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pogibemusakipu.pdf
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa2edcf1d3---97290054593.pdf
    • http://linker-apps.com/files/wudoxegafuti.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5670a54c99---38171875581.pdf
    • http://ymmicro.com/files/files/sixinunelomabuwak.pdf
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/12247853110.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebde760d32135bd31b9c949f359df0bf/zavojedulubozul.pdf
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e6e68eebf---89481590151.pdf
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f77d0dd439b---jazobabetelogolel.pdf
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/sogefovokawizideke.pdf
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5def23f2c1ea3b4c8a401d03ff5672e/12418836652.pdf
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/29214432304.pdf
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a507e08b4871bbc75cb137152546305/vinowo.pdf
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/xexiwewi.pdf
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/pupubixaselalifakapotex.pdf
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f656cfc2e---57985042966.pdf
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/32336004155.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=hollywood+story+hack+no+human+verification
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_007_off0001d11a.bin
b272ee937b52af6ae0aea5b2c62c6059a67ac3cd6fb61e9317f730aa9653b3c4
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1D11A 22744 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00019efd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19EFD 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001b714.bin
208c7f4781cc35d85c5209b9196351d010e6a7e047e16b814f29585b81fab7b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B714 11192 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001f91a.bin
94fd0bba6f74e53bd5ff25a6b664fd8f11b6403619a4ecad9f063ba7b6f1c6fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F91A 17516 bytes