Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5eed1df72b39a2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB Created: 2021-08-21 01:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3c3dc59293383202e4da856a201eb725 SHA-1: 64e59de7839fb58e49deae36aea88d37aad71adc SHA-256: e5eed1df72b39a2d86f51f5cc90adec9287a789f75568f9c8968bcad1a726c6e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various compromised websites, many of which appear to be WordPress installations. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=partituras+completas+para+banda+de+m%C3%BAsica+gratis+em+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74a6bc5f46798b170e2f519d35790cec/28297714640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkpower.net/upload/files/mewogeboxanenoxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/4356607647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ev1ehqd5ga2nhorrgp2jhm6rm/bojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/77055986053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinluatudong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/17488950977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94458551711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b448ccf7a---pipederunekixajira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab34d2acd1deb76659788c86e53200c6/12599153286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebizplus.com/userfiles/file/tewarisuwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/winakukinepinapegazebemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjurqov6c6huvl4tiidg34ue52/51977704031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69214241649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f57a361073---babor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/pabojituwarufoselevesinux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1482d53a07a7cd4000456156e0f1e202/17055576876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d033a26ea78---lusabizamudusimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eb30afa7460e71a232731932f604955/62157139885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/26937418093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/37816911767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ef7c492cd---luxazibetevopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinellerinsaat.net/UserFiles/file/12032763171.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_off00011f28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001373a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1373A 18604 bytes
SHA-256: ffc456252bab624be1a139d39f65889d21bf35055248cdccc0417855c1c9c855
font_02_sfnt_off000166db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166DB 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 91eafc7425faccf6ff89fdc350d8612db5f81d76bb3b1ee00a7551d8b236e8ea