Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e039aa7e09d5f4eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-13 13:36:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4279d6de2ebeaa9e2ba629aea7a804e2 SHA-1: 03e82725db1a248a5905c4fd2249ff6b15f0fadd SHA-256: e039aa7e09d5f4eb6f72060041941525eb6e22d8f1370467819cfa537eb84342
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+trauma+life+support+course+online PDF link annotation
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c72om4ksj1jjvsccjff35ehro/punoxufawopibalago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983096e2d6d---tiferigajogirediwusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dimozirenegikotulazura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/92581201883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zh-huaxun.com/uploadfiles/files/81373223628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/gigobanirupiwegiruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/rimokatavex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iringmalaysia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44027352596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/files/somajixoximep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37da6b8ee0116dab52dfcb88e409dff2/ridukevozorixenotalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fa0962de8---damizunebafajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omatsuri.kr/data/userfiles/files/82939129063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102e8a953e24---xelixizegevepepiginula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3c7f46e769524f92289f7ca04bed6d0/52346913119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents//files/27798088414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpo.vn/upload/files/87637578352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calprin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ramakinodedunojokemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb368edbd7e258e22e9fa62e511915f8/28744217331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinok-saintp.ru/files/3929201211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/vilegisogutiremolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021072004252173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2be6cc06e55bee3b6d21b569df53483/lesemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/5315352029.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_off0000ed56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001056d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056D 10928 bytes
SHA-256: e71a508c427d6d34c699d1f2b7aee2914f950f7bad54bdbeb2ff4eed128d2899
font_02_sfnt_off00011ebd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EBD 17404 bytes
SHA-256: 1a36d0a050f318eadaabc7d51851622a710943ed1948947b3d4dbadf9f05b290