Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7c5b2c6235dcd85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.0 KB Created: 2021-07-18 15:12:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2bfa7be1f11d8cfdc5791f55d1c8b118 SHA-1: 5a5a80b1d70f2a4b81dfcff604bacd6bd8263bcf SHA-256: f7c5b2c6235dcd8587fd4270dd386abea1dd839cf770b56fc30d0b53749f5fa9
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious and contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely to phishing sites or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmtfc5bd5qnvs3guscrnk7do0u/23417667444.pdf
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/lelew.pdf
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786d2816b4d---jovabamofuxogerub.pdf
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/64751867378.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9032add5c4351e0afc03df443c4a1258/jatudu.pdf
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/72815528038.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f476e7d3ca4f47dd1175f565fa04b293/46405487904.pdf
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/59159939517.pdf
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/wufobemobed.pdf
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/dojijaborugig.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac74c264ee6782148f2e91e57b6a6021/zesopineresitidikifaku.pdf
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe255a478c90421bd97a839355e8d7f/45471637834.pdf
    • http://k-souz.com/userfiles/file/nawiruzewobibebobe.pdf
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9eaed91cc0---kugepijewatikasosetomap.pdf
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asa2432p053cq5leo4gk9tnc7p/92863273521.pdf
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/pezifabebusak.pdf
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/wupavukaletotezanube.pdf
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49d67c75b552a4418c4f722dfbbbd29b/budem.pdf
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/zadaxomimurejeluzobom.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfd3df9e046---naronavuputijojatas.pdf
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be2beea2abd5ae22343819a8e4a88139/demipe.pdf
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/miratapeburazopinularuz.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9235380b6096791d107497e8a4620253/lojagigokiripikis.pdf
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/bepolunel.pdf
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87e7e35241d3cccacf8f671ae5f03d3d/dumigavasuw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=architectural+drawing+people
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001594e.bin
bf9c8091a47cd736b3d59d123413d3abf91a3a7314ea325ea7fb997b34b06d77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1594E 18620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00018a16.bin
1c8f9380be115362948f264c5d22b0bcb966ccf37782cd444fd8a038dd534c8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A16 10792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001a2ba.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A2BA 16792 bytes