Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f49e7a0a623be342…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:30:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e1159540b1e9eba78adf05a73444a89e SHA-1: e9614cbc02c0e1eda4ca77e455f07ac4594ac188 SHA-256: f49e7a0a623be342144ce101e6c3afb95ef810338c95a413cae1f1d07d69af5d
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the link farm heuristic suggests a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious URLs, which are designed to lure users into downloading further payloads or submitting sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=demon+slayer+mugen+train+online+full PDF link annotation
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/41474427369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910181125400520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/muzaporofekuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aaar.cat/assets/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66835310187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a94b0da87fd769218590a9680c658df/rowutabavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f09e0adfdbbc8a573f0ec8cb7b188c7/10132934044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/nakobipufuwupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a399qf6p50rpqsorra9e27df83/wudexobipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio1.com/contents/files/99842155763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/56590946329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/95879184493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--5dbfbdrd7azav1bcx.com/sites/default/files/file/dipubuwuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letnipohar.cz/upload/file/48355978025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millvalley.com/wysiwygfiles/file/68000894834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.org/contents/files/nexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/vudokunuvifuvateno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgroup.at/tmp/59807529806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keemunblacktea.cn/uploads/file/040056379567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkconstruction.com/Images/Media/files/nexexonanijagedira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/55190762923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artwatch.ru/userfiles/file/miwuxawemobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/2890068329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorsbureau.net/userfiles/file/zozekukinoxa.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_off0000d6fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF15 10772 bytes
SHA-256: b53c18735faaa101fcde79893c126f4bdfd54923c2e2bbfe43b94fe9334195d5
font_02_sfnt_off000107e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E7 18408 bytes
SHA-256: a7005d7c47c8be87f36e75dedea6f4bf6e157febda80724417dad9abafb0505c