Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2d1263935d26c72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-29 00:03:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: aed0cd9a7c9ebed56e045025bfff5ca3 SHA-1: ad04ff0b40ab347219aa0ad35de42ab94c324d47 SHA-256: e2d1263935d26c729fd48297ad97fcb343aea6ce175d98be631d585a5fe066d7
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure of the PDF with multiple external links aligns with common phishing or malware distribution lures. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs indicates an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=c%23+crash+course+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/fotase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sandlnae.com/data/editor/file/76114903450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/wikufejadopepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulns.com/uploadfile/fckedit/file/1631060153tYHy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicyazd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wibisifemugotavalixavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mackbeks.com/files/file/bokevepemagumuvujizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ccd1ec09e2d8f0336a2181077da7fc/tazovilogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enewind.com/pliki/file/zajesarepabivoxisavefilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photopoligrafic.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98230314119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsraxys.com/uploads/66037345285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/luvuredesejakusijexagile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hennel.hu/sources/elemek/file/tumovijofonawudila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oua2pb8gsvh4avkf32gug36629/jenuzoxaluvadetewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2kat.ru/userfiles/file/62427320246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/46190095612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d308540e6d---tujujola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piotrkowska77.pl/zdjeciafile/gekepanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/44916964935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90598556946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mantyobras.com/userfiles/file/39012781684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e741f50239---getevixuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkydoanhnghiep.org/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/zalujewolowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/69789040927.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_off0000adf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADF6 9104 bytes
SHA-256: fe4a9ad32d6d12da45ce8861a1e6e511df5579fd33367a5c4d1c9e774d301804
font_01_sfnt_off0000c0c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0C3 16732 bytes
SHA-256: ef35d1d00543166a1a7911da053aa0abd3df26ef79564073116bd7d5bbca8bb1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1