Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f183ccb5044a14ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-10-10 17:27:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: bef84f3bfda6a1968aab2606972f9c49 SHA-1: 648caba97f8d8c50b5f36a81139ed78d40489c80 SHA-256: f183ccb5044a14ca0d5ec0f3729d72d1e3ae9049061579f6127dd2d317d65f24
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external URIs supports a phishing or redirection attack pattern. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+duke+fishron+mount PDF link annotation
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/31911507422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentykunickiego.pl/architekci/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipegitotodutimamup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a29db7f430---74571232832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/28155716067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b4b54d8e46---70211962657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nepafigasepanolife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/15033494181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pixoluratebiterus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnienxp.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/bodudivimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b63fce7dcfc1575f8f2308a2fda2c74/68420294939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29153888796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/kisulogaduzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/lobuzasaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phulieumaymacbaoco.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/35727375921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7254805233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipacademy.org/userfiles/file/65373760779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonlineexam.tisaracademy.com/userfiles/files/34995865460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongcohonda.com/userfiles/file/9954456095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/renet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38600775028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derp74.fooden.com/UserFiles/files/biziwemifazonilotanido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142d57591ebf---vojogosivefonapamawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/27129125467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voyagerav.com/v15/Upload/file/2021104358481612.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_off0000dfac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAC 19612 bytes
SHA-256: 74388156187e078e124f740d46b973e4124415fdff9588854126ddd0847a4c67
font_01_sfnt_off0001135a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B71 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 870a157333fe902520898b30014e14762608d562d14ae84601c72ad2f2f76015