Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01820003f9aad661…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:32:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0f692a0889e874eb644c6550cb748923 SHA-1: 4dcf43eeb1c9041e65f212a712068730142aa207 SHA-256: 01820003f9aad661bcc115a90c3978ed5f42dc635acc3bdb11b597e0f3f62c3a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://whatdwellswithin.com/file/xivepofegotumulubejejilu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/moregepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denda.co.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufiruven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a6e99a4c8639be7f4e32846f35b97cc/33805590194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/68970666514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobateracota.ro/mm/file/tudosunopuxemubebezejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/suxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608183b14f92d---maxavefelunupawufora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115b8e204e17---xazogurusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/13911228847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4ce8d083c9---21309150170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d092a75576---63603760437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/16506577804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/userfiles/file/subudowopufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7363f899b054093c8b6ed5d5037cf65/xixojekimeneletonugeput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabrikangka.com/contents//files/60751940090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b5d6caea2cb19deab536f24b5ac8039/putufirelemifabuteve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f97364bda8---78608147775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/70458102937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mu75njj001q84tnqfsfaq9gl3/tevisikisisolapanowenuwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/76238081625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nic-n-nate.com/files/files/41194215843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=marketing+strategy+%26+competitive+positioning+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65590496519.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_off0000f015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF015 10316 bytes
SHA-256: f4f9f098ddd65b8702a8d3ba782a4afa22b924b8ca30ce250dd2b25ef2b70455
font_01_sfnt_off0001077f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077F 18648 bytes
SHA-256: ac175496bc14b5895441921c08cb1ea02cb8c2bd9ca2ebcf967b15260f6697e2
font_02_sfnt_off00013821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13821 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1