Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd45a65abe5ce8ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-08-08 00:15:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 186f8edc552a12bbd8db523e9a7fd145 SHA-1: 9cf5429462f4cb7d3987030f6e15d3d6cad8c3c2 SHA-256: dd45a65abe5ce8ee1a0b122f6bad064fb9aad05f07705c418603c68997d8f5e3
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links aligns with techniques used to redirect victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://cybernet.asia/UserFiles/File/tazimosuvimidalaletadavox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27151808462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15302937953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konsultacjenaukowe.eu/Upload/file/28804777019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/telak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/corsg1v5lv8n1e4776l4d5q0v6/neroxizurusojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25765649413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/zigirosipeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074389039f88---32453768423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2d244fd3f---93667309465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b171cc468aa---59586186953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/seraresisawefewuzori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fizjolech.pl/userfiles/file/soxuwiwusasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htygroup.com/upload/files/vurosileta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/fovojilixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb47569dcc---xezitototelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/pagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29eaebe335b3a8e4c314e290a3908cc0/79776987260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mloff5c87dfr72dhss6dog2r3/nuziza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac89f1438bd---zipoxuzejusafarugolap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cr08inkmgo6t2frqvcsj5kmp0b/dolemagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a005096461203fcde27aa93c74ad1e/46722086075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606faece5fe70---97863496887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d608d0ebd---10487983731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/36216304504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=langstroth+long+hive+building+plansPDF 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_off00011454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11454 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C6B 10932 bytes
SHA-256: f40f2db817a3e74467255e6cb424613054179d7dbfa61b31680694ef5b616a2d
font_02_sfnt_off0001453a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1453A 16544 bytes
SHA-256: f4c3d129749038a3a4597e1e4b202d906220e96c15a4d1fb0fc976671e5cefda