Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0c7a04c7afad0fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 15:21:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f74650cfbf687ff1b581e74eacf3aab4 SHA-1: aad6b14eb9313499e6ed790ba4b15987b107695a SHA-256: d0c7a04c7afad0fdb286e667f3e02802122f23b05dd4408cf88056acd1573708
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to domains flagged as disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/solijigavaxizujebofogale.pdf
    • http://cascad-trans.ru/files/bilefowomugim.pdf
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/65105707589.pdf
    • https://ciar.vn/uploads/image/files/puvafex.pdf
    • http://aloeverajuice.cz/files/file/loketudonorix.pdf
    • https://www.alugutader.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibilubisemupoz.pdf
    • http://gmtshipping.com/attachment/file/vejifawisisuvonur.pdf
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/83261350889.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140420a038d0---najisiwurotifufa.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e6f4ba66c---rajezimelifozuvug.pdf
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/67939223569.pdf
    • https://vnycc.com/userfiles/file/22357978461.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161474c413b8f2---3366743411.pdf
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8985f374a96670d2de67f4638a761742/54348656588.pdf
    • https://barcelona-health.com/files/galeria/files/bododivos.pdf
    • https://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/16403273023.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b2b592021e721745b732e511458b6d/64247359163.pdf
    • https://dobre-akce.cz/media/files/file/50878313053.pdf
    • https://dmitrovka-zn.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tokuvisojip.pdf
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109202333095102.pdf
    • https://copacndg.com/images/uploads/files/72022998403.pdf
    • http://worshipedia.net/sites/default/files/file/mopufogevenif.pdf
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/pomuribuk.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0+%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F+%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4+%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B3
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/820fb6da90dcdb5a37d2c71c706c7b25/xiniv.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_off0000b9e6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9E6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1f8.bin
351701be1038df179e058de34ca797b59c0b5c583c8cbcedf59a092690050c59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F8 21056 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010727.bin
f9ffaae7d6d5c3c6d6ca1732d6431980bf67e5706c61d30cdd6d27bc98df1aff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10727 10492 bytes