Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db1b4c156517c845…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:58:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3a2275e647fa9af2844e3277ba28865a SHA-1: 447058b9338495802ef1b018b824214046f7b289 SHA-256: db1b4c156517c845a67fd51164a50eb663abbc81a2332c1f8a091d8b4d7bccf9
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream, indicating potential malicious scripting activity. Numerous external URIs were extracted, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/sapagabopepemusuxiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a906f7103433e08040d22c3081bef573/daxira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fd3ac4dc19a45a02183b6c3261d45e4/xijojesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/93250344934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/42580526216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d47d2dda5---soxupukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084426ada7a5---sazote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/vewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/dumizulibum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609762dc5ae66---80313494371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/geradobugujasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2f6757a85---48924110810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vendax.ro/files/file/notumonuwojusaraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galsabino.it/userfiles/files/gakujobezakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/723165876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d08cbad89b---muwemawiwanenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2ca940f47b---fukadegeveferi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85d7cd73d07a39ec979568dd96ef6039/78637618621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallncart.com/userfiles/files/93322810011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60b1b3f1d84f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0930actress.com/files/files/92118381854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgsrum72e9cffhhn0eju2okkka/50576606336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1137.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97491030284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopcloud.cloud//ckfinder/userfiles/files/69854008668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=quadratic+equation+graph+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2318459235838d37d24a49844c81520/14438750035.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/1In 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_off0000cc74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e486.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE486 16756 bytes
SHA-256: aab6f454678ac5d0b15e9a73e03494a69d02cf8e082836e5e30e7343dfab6a95
font_02_sfnt_off00011006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11006 10992 bytes
SHA-256: d57ca18ac60d63d0f1ed8b9f838b3260028dd252d890f85ea33f0197fae12fd6