Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4371a8402537bf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:11:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6bbe5d011b0b3b3be307915202519dad SHA-1: 4e055b30a1fd52899bf946e7619a4365a606ed4a SHA-256: d4371a8402537bf62d9ffe2be039b7351d84784634e950f5ae6d1e50a4db5b36
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malware. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and numerous URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=magnetism+worksheet+answers+stephen+murray PDF link annotation
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/52548682051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/73449422166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745162d0473---10745733667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maternites-catholiques.org/ressource/site-image/files/dafasofefobipexubevegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/jumujidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795a04e7f42---6958928767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2bb9c45553---fesukogupusowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://local-atlas.ru/userfiles/files/57104635319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e73a4f439---dosukexepabunadupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/felitixupude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d0fee4315---bakerulorevixesunawagodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/102083319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804ffc2eb9c---35968942340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40895697fe4d7df909d37dbe79f2449d/31565217891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/19721339385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivni7psvodklbgdrtd89bbsidq/39990333867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834825504c7---womudajikixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/88734272780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5024b9a9b423b940ba60a5aaeca130e8/4876911042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecad11dd1d---libodegaxujikogesikelefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/863caf9acffd24c029590c6b83fb2260/pewinumixelirekax.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_off0000dab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB2 16956 bytes
SHA-256: adcbd6e7b5637dcf3a83999d08e080c4e60ed2ca72b5c51e6634cb0f8f1a312b
font_01_sfnt_off000106f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F7 11036 bytes
SHA-256: db3ceb8e2e9ddf599db9a94917a7b5db36601816237c1f756038f99a8c2d875c
font_02_sfnt_off00012096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12096 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1