Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d45385f96ceee20f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:07:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ade95645c367c9ecb1783ed00ad3dbd3 SHA-1: 8096d4478ff5f2f8fd5af4f4bed232253aef21aa SHA-256: d45385f96ceee20f76fb80d13c20cf282a833f269192f9f334a2d38f66578f06
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/66549749204.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/30718596077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadep30giay.com/uploads/image/files/59136714648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/27998582055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58733988e46ecf569dafa5d55093705d/55313195042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bgg.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80618822013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariosantanna.eu/userfiles/files/36146011549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/vebedovurejewoneviwinesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/natasutafijizubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessawa.com/userfiles/file/31546972901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/13548148356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/jujawijubosufukabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electroagro.es/pub/files/28690718413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021091401153873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondaototanan.com/upload/files/mikovekurazevutajeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/kojexezezuvadinibedunolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144993e55dc4---tezikedurepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.eu/userfiles/file/bapijarugerosimoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b4af2531a---fasigotutelobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ftbkdcamitb5h.xn--p1acf/files/fck/file/ratimalid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-baltic.com/myfiles/dok/96186330542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d2dgroup.net/upload/files/wukewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/64946262535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibiucuratenie.ro/fckeditor/userfiles/file/72857557036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=my+android+phone+is+not+ringingPDF 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_off0000ea27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA27 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 26c2837fa66838ad96accd4dbcfa9ba01c4f395dd17553a68b23a91d984e8203
font_01_sfnt_off00011844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11844 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001305b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1305B 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 8c82b51682a16fdeff1680d9493791dcf874030178cd46ff67f003ebb570a8b1