Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fea9661af9e9145b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 03:01:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 676b4a5ece5cf3c323525fcdade058d4 SHA-1: bc8660048d74fdabd67b182e283bc7fa8071dc5d SHA-256: fea9661af9e9145b2409a1f60c12576670875ef931a61306235f36e33f995f68
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to download further malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to execute code or redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=123movies+unblocked+websites PDF link annotation
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1631089491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismet.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralabelegasin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/satose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/kusopoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electric-kernbichler.at/xenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/68364490643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96031881366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shamayachts.com/upload/file/30768882834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horacebatten.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22735976901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346a3a7f8e3---dijokunaberudisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/51907401529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb81d65851---kubewajukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qap0tg5skcv7h42306kgdk50o4/tizimabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906161224621942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelfurniturecn.com/d/files/44427735190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axi-hohenstein.de/userfiles/file/zotivebukarinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegman-kzn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45933604941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317201b9aae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reklama71.ru/upload_picture/genowarati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/garipira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jukamimezulutiwesasajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/zesinesironabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jevurapavukeribexe.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_off0000f62d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62D 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 16c4ed7ae60610bda398807d285e9695d1bae42a4acf50203fe645cdbb6c6fcd
font_01_sfnt_off00010fe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F2 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 72d3fb8cc4183cddbcc9621a2bc678c9aa29b7217b79fddec9796cfe26ee4f50