Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef743ce50aa9cb6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:22:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2b3dee2d3e83bd66a63d94ff8624c918 SHA-1: 195a150487726e2acd86f24c84020e0b2e240c6b SHA-256: ef743ce50aa9cb6e7b39ff543c44d827c89422f7c6bc0f22aeeb2bd7182e8ec5
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure aligns with SEO spam or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9898

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 http://rsst77.ru/upload/files/gutimituvegiba.pdf
    • https://gomaihoa.net/upload/files/90760637456.pdf
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/filegagumido.pdf
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///banalugebodaberem.pdf
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/nowovirago.pdf
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59fe167980c1ada8506445de2b3fbb93/40354381802.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdd5ce78a87fa7d3197b2280c2b52b8b/25365589153.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2637be563f---dadaduxugu.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efb73fe5a3c02a9418a4572c84c79f18/wozuxumixutupejuzojupuwij.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqbve1oc29rcbj9dlsdq52a204/15740359940.pdf
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/jodoja.pdf
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dpbg1qg9vumcgifm03c00j01o/lokaxenidilabu.pdf
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/dituxem.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a965fd1650.pdf
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/46475512949.pdf
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/7464617541.pdf
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210614102152344.pdf
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/27138202009.pdf
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aibqpv4kn7u0le6n1ubnlkiek/tadaxadanaluzaluwiwiloru.pdf
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/gexipetujilez.pdf
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ff0cf3928---nowifawe.pdf
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae2718097b3---fapibowevenaluwepax.pdf
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d419653acb---libiwomogix.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=pac+man+championship+edition+dx+trophy+guide
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001105d.bin
27ded5ec5edfc0660e2e208e1cac5f9008d2fd222abc2ce30bcd39f9c6de0a20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105D 2360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011ae3.bin
c948eee6b07ce4c4dc5db64d53bd0e380bfe1c95a7c4adbb4efe0475bf6adf32
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE3 18336 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014b67.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B67 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001637e.bin
87be0450be15d75e19849acc206f67cafdba2c82866ccefcf3305586a3e2fa8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1637E 11232 bytes