Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3251d79de4da592…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:31:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 58aa6c3f1cfa099229fcf24c3bfb4bc1 SHA-1: 67881f02522d738e5b2e476dd694f25339e459e0 SHA-256: e3251d79de4da592fd1a4036492cb65bdfb3cd1e50ec15d04a5b2714c05aedbf
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links suggests potential for hosting malicious content or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bill+withers+aint+no+sunshine+tab PDF link annotation
    • https://talaa-obour.com/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/nomokafanitudorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/37538984059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents//files/tivexosagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enoqs4hos3365v118ue3f39vc6/kewidaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cd55d9a8eec48b40e6d32a4743f8533/sogezoxilewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/15290281520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotronic.eu/files/file/65618273439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae54f9314d95ef50cdce693a13d7bb57/xamusagufarodofodiwoloren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/bikawedirifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1791006848a39598f1a61aa759371513/fuluvodiwurutakikixep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/53376547882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0a20c04955a91b213bc33459003897f/zavaxolopuwomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/73983575578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/89079600125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152d48f2c3df2c8e1c0bea493439c90a/29097877412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/68165185008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7b01c0207---jajubozeliridubuwemixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/domesesajisatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bee71695de46325433fbad994d6f9da/72837372109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d1dba62b9---gamilulonulumezawixekomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021062919283080554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/42795310294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa295a6645---27284041042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94ba04aedb---31900072914.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_off0000c9d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D8 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 52cf4cd921040fb20a49b5454584117975806f590abe2f29125755c3b5fe8119
font_01_sfnt_off0000e20a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE20A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1C 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 52fd779f1c76a725130fe4b68ed9753dfaa900fefb9665ce226af9a4de211f50