Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1114712b3ac2839…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:43:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: af1c5c56f6356e467be520a8f3a42165 SHA-1: ab67ecaa180f157050b70642809525e11a44398f SHA-256: e1114712b3ac2839a7de5fa38bbbef775704734064932427f63004c3cc8fb416
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of specific user-facing lures, but the overall structure and URL targets suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+fluid+film+lubrication+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bon-mar.com/fck_user_files/file/27850620951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408182aa54a---74362452305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/72739024878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/51371884547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/56656198017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/rutaruxiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/79958429333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138573bbacf8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c142369d8---seratap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdannepal.com/userfiles/file/36048303189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whipitleather.com/userfiles/file/88076536217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textmakareknutsson.se/upload/image/fatifatabadipuvotemazelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210912084310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/86428997842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gusujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/masagimivapinujodap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/joledesekazumovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b823b1856cabac0e2b46433e0c6c5750/pidotivikozagogevowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ylwlgwadmin.ylwl.cn/upload/files/segosakopamonabezibore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/fulupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/zomolepesevupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a79f0f93c---17421228591.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_off0000d617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD617 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 2a12f56114f10eabf7b5825a8867dc5c1f9cb8d15fa119ddce8b474ed1029efa
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5D 18504 bytes
SHA-256: 3c87cef7fba82802947986a9c8e2129fe94bbd317c7ab6c22efc1a377eca6128
font_02_sfnt_off00011f4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1