Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d89e5adae8b29c89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 04:02:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d9e9c5ec54c51b60706ef86bf9cef5ad SHA-1: adddc1e90221f61b3e957658d1bd81abe6020f8f SHA-256: d89e5adae8b29c89ec9bd8ec2a6eb8c47f354025c1630fe1141abbf418536fab
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. These embedded links likely serve to distribute further malicious content or lead users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgv6osjfj4rj4l0gd672857da4/25642856492.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/fagifezuzebolawuwusenazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/6389259349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5dd93dee89ac402f95104e155007b1/74690482205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c4d152023---12349540694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12256be5df---65335222403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7mlgtcs0mmfc1hno0ifhmkkjo/motikitagudavaxawebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/53514164399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieclangman.com/Images_upload/files/84286458619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/birew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5dde91e6d---kokakomopovazudijekufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/78421452931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79388cebf4---borofekotezet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42fce520eb3a757c7b2ee1cdddd8ccd3/92567162795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcr-fomentoconsumoerenda.com/uploads/files/boralagitupofazuvigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/xofelogemus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac622990ffb---zajosafumunikakikomapinub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/29485114603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f7dc14e76---netalelizelogepumisevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarealestate-eg.com/userfiles/file/659351203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--l3cbpp3gh4a5g5c.com/userfiles/files/47641963935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/22557790885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/984d489d7494ce4d9590b42bf11d9e48/gatosokukefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/571a94a38055e686a1f910e6be4bb9a5/nuditolujodurubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=chinese+companies+to+be+delistedPDF 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_off0000ef33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001074a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1074A 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 065193254a5221200e09af1dfe25020b526f84883b91561113b2a6b8a0aecdbd
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE7 18252 bytes
SHA-256: 6596292ee0ae9e58687873a4786405934079d754033e09195bc6655ed418daff