Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9f9c482c0dd044b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-18 07:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 31d3a4d5fa144bd1b10a0f904014152a SHA-1: 6e10a646c8c8939abc73b3e76d0cc4304fce7225 SHA-256: e9f9c482c0dd044b1a8cb97a81a55731fee9cc9f95e7dd0d692ffde392fc97b7
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of external links suggests an attempt to direct the user to potentially harmful content or further stages of an attack. No specific family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/filepanitovifomusaboxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ehs1958.org/clients/73155/File/7608264836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/bukiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minisadik-margaritka.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32241794470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfadent-volg.ru/images_uploads/files/lalegaluxufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/turijofexebebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/20162541118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/14017709495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/84880129000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/48312367758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-program.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zugawotapogaxozumozireku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roughriders66.com/clients/f/fa/fa96273273f04fd2a06feef12b1e4d70/File/9048197208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pedarotirejarerujudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/63381895090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/23601749685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210621044420_462284831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/44565168516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077acf3bdd72---samizinaguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/37975563261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c7cb9c65d2c3e521e12cd1649bca4b9/74713082862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ranet53ntj72t3nuntsglco4c5/94830060271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8c814bd9d0---venonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=back+exercises+sciatica+pdfPDF 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_off0000e133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE133 16192 bytes
SHA-256: 4d2cd8e722735cb8a776fff1676f69c0bb1acd17454c13c5aeaa567fa4d5e2fc
font_01_sfnt_off00010aee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AEE 10588 bytes
SHA-256: f5b9666304f5fb07a82a67c3f25c2491a5c3c6834898769ccc30cdd1168bfeee
font_02_sfnt_off00012358.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12358 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1