Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df48d6433cecf403…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 14:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f31fcfbb687e8184b876866e8b4bd2ad SHA-1: 7328299297320bc5644e9c61e4606d56556cf4e0 SHA-256: df48d6433cecf4032cb73d9a511fc67f6f346bbd07efecb7919adddefed7056d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely as a first stage in a phishing or malware delivery chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/2008638788.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.saveurspoitoucharentes.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39150604539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/72007977673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/25583146318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/zikim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2109cc04a---59988071550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/kobiloxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884a8226f99---zurefekukofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fivalikizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents//files/boripul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a1a2d93be---26698131568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70d063ae92---28076754020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9ec303ead---46124452508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaphcm.com/luutru/files/69299138583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ba250fd1f8157eb9f11e2c711ec0ce/23007104072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c30c8402648de9d64e41a08f578e55/luganajojetazimakaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/lodatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/50102349970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monktonlionsclubkidscamp.com/clients/9/99/99b8b5517e5fb663501b7ee5137ebf55/File/6585442120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075868a7b55a---gafetesuzomewuzapuluno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/zowutelawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd9771327bba4a91f8e066430fbbc4c3/xeduxunarerajoxalukononij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae69a3c04d3---98176959142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meregujelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4+%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8+avast+free+antivirusPDF 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_off0000eb9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B4 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 3150d4433587fb5ec4e87b6b6c5a72b8e55c5c27cac28cc60827a6a14f62fdec
font_02_sfnt_off00011de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE3 23016 bytes
SHA-256: 124e1e65fb1bff782c3e9e72a7aab4f5860cf99e6b773bb40081f897eae8a245