Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f96fd551ae5d4cfe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-08-20 15:46:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7ac5c0fb005717396c579e0d42c5a9db SHA-1: 64b2001279847250cde000a75d512de74fd6257b SHA-256: f96fd551ae5d4cfefb13165cd27106bc7d775c07eafd0d08bdd922a1b9539331
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of these links suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites, possibly for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/51575738318.pdf
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9628867aa7---guxisimufipekozipanaposep.pdf
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/defotulutu.pdf
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbc9c11f38---84909159399.pdf
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e58e44469b75cde908c1b9773c39e269/kefan.pdf
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/637e55f7c28954ecf2480ab863e611fd/16005235273.pdf
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/gawefave.pdf
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sexuxijakuritujexa.pdf
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827aac7b3a2---bumadevofawumoginapokig.pdf
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf9bfed531f29d08b25004c577f9d0e/rizepupejofoxupazomuw.pdf
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611507c90b35c---36789041659.pdf
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/35383311042.pdf
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lichk7v6haar8232o2otbiisn/zowidibafovufiboroj.pdf
    • https://tpijobportal.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowuwo.pdf
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l17qdv1ofqgf7jv444e3ilbr3e/12023772970.pdf
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikkavuarfivd5n6eh4mvb71s7m/54252356948.pdf
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887b8764601---61590020058.pdf
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6da7215863---44901500310.pdf
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bacd1375fbe8a4af98c9b14a096af71c/xafimeruxujuvivorolezope.pdf
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/tobebalupelexuviminej.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607759e4df13c---54149548235.pdf
    • https://thekolkatapackersmovers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemumew.pdf
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/64099872402.pdf
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/22533948717.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe5bb0027c---sabelipu.pdf
    • http://galenbio.com/images/upload/file/11086499142.pdf
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/fijuwadibulug.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=exercice+tableau+crois%C3%A9+dynamique+excel+2010+pdf
    • 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_off00010acc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000122e3.bin
f786a3dc1b5db82f010b76b446c77b98659da09734c312fab5765e3ed0c03129
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E3 11816 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e82.bin
1593039a0a4f39f47d660bd1dbe24d1bdb89b58527b8a6948485b028691d9992
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E82 19832 bytes