Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f72230ba89602719…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 01:58:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c34c1efb00712ee2c5c19ceed695cd15 SHA-1: ba486a0023ef78bbe494c8305cc213be4eb02ec9 SHA-256: f72230ba896027196d5d12ae5696289f5d018f5aaaa308be5e93763bb79f70a9
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be directing users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+calories+is+a+mcflurry PDF link annotation
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021091300564981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/soxiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d08175f1fe---63018376900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanalights.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/72036294564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozilasavozacem.rs/files/gulonofonebawesoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/paduda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/zowironivovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359f1f9f324---vezozabozuvilozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/43183729400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/dosikodolagomoguleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytokin.ca/upload/editor/file/jatugowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/givomevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huemin.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/49101985182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/letijenite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailpark.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/60643551372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/97515271213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/ditafisupofazagujaxabonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nileagriculturalindustries.com/file/nuwafidupijegolufudimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df8f1541f9---95856217111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411bc8f2145---bipapilezojowinisakonomax.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_off0000b0b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B9 10688 bytes
SHA-256: e5e438ef40353b609b646dc01e5adb443a1cec57a1f6abbedead0520ef18e43c
font_01_sfnt_off0000c943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC943 15860 bytes
SHA-256: df161e2c1fe25c066c95d89b3c8043361671b2fd32b7734cc5678e6bd0c28599
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1