Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6e9de8626cc273a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-12 15:53:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1b8fcd2dbee531557b387a21bda10701 SHA-1: 3932e58e2392fae1a40f79e92f9a7d42c11385b0 SHA-256: f6e9de8626cc273a42d6a5344e428aa26945d19dbcdc9182fcc3924dc669328a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious or SEO-abused content, likely distributed via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+pet+hair+vacuum+nz PDF link annotation
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfc036dce6c---95804549895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/wagazifoxunojujaritujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741b377e8f5---pezenageve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/munubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiphangnhanh.net/uploads/image/files/soravuromulukebanupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/68204137455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/47810322963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/63177078552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaziemirkentkonseyi.com/upload/files/11111838351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/talufafaberegupapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/wusofegevuvexiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1951f2f1ed---ropibonematu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8ggdepla1od86gusbvrmiscg0/24298664824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bariwadivajevanivogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608244d5832c5---febotekidopasogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/12937843218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091894f82cd4---72147674801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/kumikumufidorixemedimope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c68dfb7b1f---46385306249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cf7ba9342f---25229486860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856f0e90063---37986451178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bauarch.bg/files/63621815682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89773611398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609201a388cb7---tutidegijadakagik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/soxatun.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_off0000f4b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B0 17808 bytes
SHA-256: acf3fc43d904f60e9c15ff48332334eeda6fdeff06934cf12efedba3d3e58ef3
font_01_sfnt_off000123fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123FA 10752 bytes
SHA-256: c703181ec9c03f11aaf2151eb58688ae3a18ab3fae1e6281ff412f40c1d33b20
font_02_sfnt_off00013cab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1