Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e93ff00bcdc30412…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 80ba8cd7e8952107a17c21c42c7ca460 SHA-1: b471dddcb581d80c8276929bc800c8973d4034a2 SHA-256: e93ff00bcdc3041224b368e7e2fa117a98cfa441fcc4ea0d80a051fa62ed4dba
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or exploitation, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6285cf922---78942355897.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://riminabda.sk/userfiles/file/4509925942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zdravotechnika.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sazalevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b5ab873ba2---tewaxufinazebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasand.com/userfiles/relebaworuworusis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savytrading.com/userfiles/file/38497197793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/39489463121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolninskayahotel.com/userfiles/file/sotegiliripugijalotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/sutitiwetepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageofwonders.buka.ru/sadm_files/6133944922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905194714745564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suruburi.net/mm/file/vibitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlastudenta.org/Upload/file/puzidutonibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/sawezupevavikisupowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c44dd6064b---28479158251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1ai/files/file/devavaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/57937252053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilboamedia.com/userfiles/file/reguxafugupiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/lilizixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barefoothoa.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32798745739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hardiebase.com/uploads/assets/filefile/kajoxune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwartetproforma.com/userfiles/file/3850336360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/xuxutuvedogexisogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/mizurolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpackeg.com/userfiles/file/tenuvonazabepunovatefasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dunefikimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=wonder+woman+1984+online+downloadPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE08 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 5257c94b4e337ac5354212dcd0c2a1b6466b92b36d3db0edc3b7afa0a2f60e63
font_01_sfnt_off000116c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C5 18776 bytes
SHA-256: f0b502e9ad85294968ec03e6989d7a2abf8e57201e4152de46ad11535190add8
font_02_sfnt_off000147d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1