Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 004048fcdb5ab49a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:14:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 692f8744c9f88bfd930b5015a6da796e SHA-1: 2be677d69808a5072256f96fc1f28685c89259e2 SHA-256: 004048fcdb5ab49a935b01be3018caa81bcf231e08d74d80d000725260742291
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous PDF files hosted on various websites, some of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://giasuminhtam.com/Images_upload/files/77660778998.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/zekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelsk-adm.ru/files/uploads/files/11435395911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/sutalogebulenogamidexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/21590826235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maximaviajes.com/FCKfiles/file/pudajorigawito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprenda-atdi.com/uploads/files/34496454501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafasolis.eu/userfiles/files/46786096738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/barikemitulikoberifikoduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siriusdynamics.com/assets/uploads/files/liwutajito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thediamangroup.com/_images/files/xelirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210906180509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chubsorn.com/file/files/7015938354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b58b50b112---nubufogarobolimizixuseju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sedefartphotography.com/resimler/files/gejuxawili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arucax.am/user_images/file/bojavepejeluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/images/news/file/24005188575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b0ee18f7e5---xovebuvozowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monthclean.com/uploads/files/202109031531033931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c29420d66---16265098539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b756135d05704045e8b02632488e6446/96441464251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamitobe.ru/files/file/26279308997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/xakijexarijejetewofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tamilrockers+2021+new+movie+downloadPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000da24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA24 10936 bytes
SHA-256: fa379ecdf7838928e025a7564954d237c043dad0f879668720cb57f43acf0322
font_01_sfnt_off0000f391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF391 18696 bytes
SHA-256: 4b637694bade9fca8ba1a57f839f2761fce234324e2fd51f6da649895e43bb9c
font_02_sfnt_off00012335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12335 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1