Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4c984f59152834f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-05 00:34:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 567d61f7909ad91caaaf71d12ef762d8 SHA-1: 41053b967c93eac57be7c62a4085409749087a9f SHA-256: e4c984f59152834fe99effa7e42836ebf76b3a7aea44f6f470eab859596a9f5b
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it is designed to exploit user interaction with embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbffaacb256c3a1df8188e286904ec28/kigudewesakigu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/62343663745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5jpilrve3psa7dko396bq56vq/39804616752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0272400001624774399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ef6728e6d---88969974946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interreg-ipa-husrb.com/downloads/86853747061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/demizixekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lateligetufiponim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///turilezoxazode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/wetixutiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents//files/99657057928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c159b149c6e---38757395228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemaymemorialgolftournament.com/clients/d/d2/d245e0393a5bbb16d67b82808c007790/File/tuludegugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/bilalexisopixozube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/jutogemiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/99727527855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/sedanotulejixikidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/40495180313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da1b1a141aa---29562958939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d190c004d2---76140465141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095edb2ee6fb---tavobifaparof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/netezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3vr2kti7qeu383u9np4qmuc8l/25081585966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b33677d212921c6f149beb22be8cda1/16985781427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+schwarcz+obstetricia+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD812 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8F 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 544851f948906a2d4387710903de24505a9409527e2ebf3858b15d8622b52860
font_02_sfnt_off00010681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10681 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00011e93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E93 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 8e677485fc4fefd42d0816b9c90b68ccc363bc9002acb150ba3bf0fc0da574c0