Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd6a16fa44249de8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:09:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c2d2c14a0057ddbe42f1ae2c46879a8d SHA-1: a37e3c74be5f0602f8c4d21f6869125714d98a32 SHA-256: dd6a16fa44249de8d2f4f6632ead4924c6eac59cd59d5ddcca877c48188920f4
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly suggests malicious intent, likely to exploit users via these links. The presence of embedded JavaScript further supports the potential for malicious code execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apn+protocol+means PDF link annotation
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/zasutusupitotiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e89854c7df97e7c4c5263e44f3f5a15/luvibuvebotusareru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/30092964732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caror.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejogowiduwilajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/lezilajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ora9gmc2njkdui52kok3jmkkt/ganasawikafifizafujijazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/tusetexisinefilawukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.com/userfiles/files/42990689963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d9f252018---41623842484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/63186811039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c97282c74b2239ba365e47915418cd1/46366416338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gesisumotutofova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.info/contents/files/29799082742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/gozasemowari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hro.ait.ac.th/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jozak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/sunoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1631601734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurashi-kyoiku.com/cms/dat/upimg/file/57559301674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/8889528431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/24229538115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/kavekosipepazedawem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/limatizedixokaregozaj.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_off0000cfbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D4 10424 bytes
SHA-256: d0134005265ee7d56f6ceb457b4b10a6d5cb65abfc48ce5c70a629ab332f4533
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF7D 17404 bytes
SHA-256: eb37c8a546764bd04118b09eab4ef22de93ce34803e66c71a97c263749b9f4fb