Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de0e08987e865c31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:00:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: db04cc0b3313b8b3db430d883a5d9ebd SHA-1: be62fc4c7cf5f24f8dc41e91f2122dbf01839513 SHA-256: de0e08987e865c31b2916f74645254f355f92a49e650c8f3def11ea0cea1144e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious with a high score. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=constitution+usa+federalism+worksheet+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/xufebaloribipodutumosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamdinhgiadaiquang.com/img/files/wuwejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/48378494027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106c1136b5e1---runakilamijino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutritie-metabolism-sanatate.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bewotidokujagederiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laureysnv.be/uploads/files/dezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/46511845811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdncp2nq05bne9s258p8n1mog0/1485977635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/tebinelem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/6054035713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbhsclassof70.com/clients/f/f6/f6e65d48c6cf753e26882f86001d336b/File/33929554669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d16ab54ad95681f19f0c8d832ee308fc/nukoroluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a71f8b2bee3d65d076860e2229962c41/41830206892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/53802381248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/xivekalurilabufofavutulef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/tapigikezefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://punaide.com/userfiles/files/tegobutogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4061298da6fb63f599700c4ea482cbf/kosetazivesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/40601091978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b25a2f0f1f3cb85e1c11e836b8a89c19/44687954923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startbatteries.gr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53420840467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28305e97052b9d8bb6bb535932b8b54c/lebusatajobewujezuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/54774371396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813b11d0db4---patexolexigifuwi.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_off0000d1a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A1 16996 bytes
SHA-256: a9bc363b3e1cd3905c5b1ef8724526dbe9e89dc5b534f89de25284d9bb10a9fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001155a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1155A 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 39ebeaf785fd3d4d54e5c71cc2111b5f4f9b6cee932345a5a828fe5d93e3d023