Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7ed5df463efcd7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-10-02 12:35:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 774dd6eef758bda5542987ab4a153526 SHA-1: 372f8eb6f15d596bd73d4041408fa82fec2a6db6 SHA-256: d7ed5df463efcd7e8d6a93905ab263879f36a0fb64668609ff88ccd67a844ea6
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 URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual content, but the heuristics and numerous URLs point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lakes+with+fishing+piers+near+me PDF link annotation
    • http://infinity-c-t.com/userfiles/file/53290003864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jatransfer.com/userfiles/file/27840994454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/warexaxodaketeponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8641a65d837c49772a8cb7abc54f64c/46298436268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea76870689---72668267527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poomseoul.com/userfiles/file/2192951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/lapitasowosarozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silky.ae/images/bulk_images/files/nilagobevotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/87349382150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/forijukala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikingpaint.com/user_file/file/gesefogitori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anesaportugal.org/upload/file/kavulawedulevuxukuxoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3631d9cab11d7099b850d7a3823818ed/dowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietaltop.com/userfiles/files/sesel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/32363476703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listocrm.com/userfiles/files/woviropezubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/53201345570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.de/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/lunose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/gifukuvedasuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henuopack.com/d/files/93856769334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/94860689738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/71157399008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156f29b42d4b---raponerutomaxamusozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86747980291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trisyscom.com/userfiles/file/60076293573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betsin.org/userfiles/files/dejaruxisopepaxetoge.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_off0000b2f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F9 15208 bytes
SHA-256: 9f06a1897ca8807d3eb8c18f8b63138e70d75271b4ad4c05e6b365c25d49018d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B7 10772 bytes
SHA-256: f1ea3c858bfaab1696ba09c81508edba5be7152dfa084d5060259a9847c3b295