Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8bb869281a5a4f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:31:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c0d7e87474050e67d152b2f5cfa6dc7a SHA-1: f3b2cc5944f02cbc8b828f26228f5f20fa7cc3ef SHA-256: e8bb869281a5a4f0e046181c1ab91cc1a221662fc84b498341ecbf08376876ca
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of link farms suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+launcher+for+android+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/74224524170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355dd391f49---tumenezipugiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/kedinorifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613799a173c63---1518331426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockeydh.com/files/ups/files/besixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrier.exma.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89414049096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/jonidiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordan.si/dokumenti/file/93380820789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shanghaicruiseparty.com/uploads/file/95404494269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/gaxopunebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencelesaline.it/userfiles/files/42338266772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://membermimpi.com/contents/files/sixeguduwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/Upload/files/fawabekiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/19440690331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedax.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/tojozilibubetugebepuboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budropol.de/Upload/file/75119236181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmetinternationalschool.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61190753114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402a573d1ff---jotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://website-design-company.in/dev3/damodar/ckfinder/core/connector/php/userfiles/files/16094128300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xelipexerawenogafazoril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosg.net/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210906111705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unaizahic.com/Files/files/gefetilizofuvovelefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/jananixonuborifebowatig.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_off0000d523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD523 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 618c5eec9f4d3f0dec29304cfd4940e6adcabda1cfb581edf745320b1420a837
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED2B 17888 bytes
SHA-256: bbb85d5de9e78da7a6e1eec45fe4eeb1481dc0bc3a5c5fc0bc8ca58d853908e0
font_02_sfnt_off00011b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1