Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e896876081d74608…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 06:58:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 14e39ff88493ab622dbcdf8c588211d6 SHA-1: 10508ce304fc7093e223639d3de7de66f18d452e SHA-256: e896876081d74608f272e7d15804d14ccc7985627f78b2c85539779b292565a6
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to funnel users to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the PDF structure itself are indicative of a malicious distribution or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=great+battle+medieval+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/memowos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataprint.ie/uploads/file/mameguvurowujuzijijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclubburger.com/uploads/files/kuzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/tegalisixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/vuvojepivepesalekeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/fuwobogejikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image/file/62130924935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eb73b9fde470abb4476a51eb90ea072/damaxitifowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/dalufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/59705805955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441b8cc108c---76989524689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/82476189324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadafashionbelt.com/Uploads/file/49304684684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409b7556c95---24809235267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behbehaniprojects.com/uploads/files/voronuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/nedilubosunorubevare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yp05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/disilobugedagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f02dd2677f251a84967a1001550977a3/gejafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mundolibre.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/56367953487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/39392093831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210916225230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slr-eyewear.com/slr/userfiles/20210909080642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebillionbottom.com/business_school/uploads/file/rijezokebu.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_off0000dc24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC24 20984 bytes
SHA-256: 76f2d6f41db9be5a386a72bed97fe316df553956f8bae5c1a23197e269a065b9
font_01_sfnt_off000113e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E8 10620 bytes
SHA-256: b4ccddb30cfacd417c0b3d587ce84d459817f44e598bb37591257c686fd64dc4
font_02_sfnt_off00012bff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1