Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e837f52a78de38b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 20:52:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 67994afda0b89542660a1b7b9166277d SHA-1: 306b51556000b753ab99ee6c1c3c96edb7e101c0 SHA-256: e837f52a78de38b7a716da638e5cd292eded5a6109cce2e39d58005dfe1bd77c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the document is intended to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9780

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=letter+from+the+heart+real+estate PDF link annotation
    • http://shacklefordlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/3750860448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144f1372b8d2---binafexaguvitafivovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/tujorememugidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/42676431893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaienclinic.com/uploadpic/files/napulusuxumubotumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhandmadeitems.com/userfiles/file/mijoliruxadime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apartmani-mestrovic-krk.hr/files/50172579304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pagodatalk.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/wofona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyshelter.net/assets/upload/files/mifulowigurezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150003.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210914142605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assisdrive.pt/userfiles/file/55330690614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/kirazipenede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/miritobolomawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ijjun55qd2cn7iv2l5dgpq41v/55325793196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariconium.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pisobifowigawopujufemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bf954bd382a08bafcc27b61c311644/kazifiwurawevitadowijuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalbando.com/DATA/upload/files/202109051808351237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614363623d89b---18699429621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/24455940919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/67384206673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traslochimontalto.it/userfiles/files/73289238177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kite-surf.sk/files/50667620999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpwlawpa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28732982250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myagenda.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/pukikiwunejozufuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61652305853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/28527806438.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE088 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f89a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF89A 16336 bytes
SHA-256: fdd931517be1d3a2061fe32b731b93d99e44cec02abad5f5ef071736f8342ac3
font_02_sfnt_off00012305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12305 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 1726199bbe4041cb185d4c451c27288b7027e492150f8f8b7adc718e331e945b
font_03_sfnt_off00013a06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A06 1920 bytes
SHA-256: 5215671b78cd122bb03f7d9a240504fbdb445689c9afa904ed601adbc7031b8c