Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1f18090b96dd474…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 01:32:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9b24276ea843be2426359a2a56932c68 SHA-1: 17323c0925e90798b1b5b9f877ce162784eec573 SHA-256: d1f18090b96dd474cd620d0228a77ef6b53c8a90888cfcb1ca3fd6a1ee29a7ce
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure aligns with SEO spam or phishing lures. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links is a primary indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baixar+apk+free+fire+advance PDF link annotation
    • http://longruiglass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210905_035330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needlugs.com/userfiles/files/budediga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/wejagiwajebunuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjaartfreeart.pl/userfiles/file/xawenosuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82ca1bkibi6eufn5bh1b7i3e.com/UserFiles/File/99069638485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8946c46cafd89a016e80142535663740/tedetun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dibixiveromopiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0604c381e921e6529e24786a50c866a5/82506100416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c3a925121---juloraral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/12928027322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/61390772405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edukoc.net/userData/ebizro_board/file/tewapadezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szhlfz.net/upload/1315999774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53450384878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konzolstudio.ro/uploaded_files/file/6959107052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/91013165422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efca2659b5---5990115750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907060657908085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ap116.ru/userfiles/file/78948892885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaadalagi.com/contents/files/dopipeziwudajivedalozogax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/mumewaxodexutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwaterpure.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80820003693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/4200126826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/63661360624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buffinvestment.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jasoneruwaxetugig.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_off0000cc6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE482 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 1e9e92b93d0dee827dd60321b4a55a00de2a5dc78e5052b8655db30967e3e520
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC7D 16356 bytes
SHA-256: 03b0c23a98a559f5a90a5980ec623171e40f8d1bb5984e2b6669a916eb8c887b