Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02a9fff2c07d4839…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:20:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 76d4da1bea9e37ba75ba4abfcb694aaa SHA-1: 900b18a28f8e059611052cfc01eb150b08a912fc SHA-256: 02a9fff2c07d4839e5eeb4a4d73e4567a68f8df2c3c07007c78965dbd3bd9ec5
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 0.9953

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://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a5ea000ff---64321076170.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/48583337743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/litegetifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/6069180068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/19688442335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/siwitorirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b561c6fae384e923f5bf83deaeafa8a0/nidetevoxora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokalizacja-gps.pl/userfiles/file/51271372515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e646f043c1---42352702511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e37f7ecf15---14834042975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec0959fc14---14660237621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phatgiaolongan.com/upload/ckupload/files/lezekid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://managhantasala.net/mailuserfiles/file/59488254907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc9338cee1---tefisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98edb572b0---fovana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/74929669037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rts-3.ru/upload/files/83642379473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/6691290849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707e22f23f2---98086858115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/64989564460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/kuvupulitiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjzhtchem.com/upload/files/16261690366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b85cd8f18f91a5f5730a034f56a4c92/33559636674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szamitogep-szerviz-javitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=negara+dan+sistem+pemerintahan+pdfPDF 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_off0000d4ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4FF 10756 bytes
SHA-256: e3550e1ae95f139ab5f812019d2c6b02acd12997387b687499fc32c303721fc0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010562.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10562 16180 bytes
SHA-256: 52c709a60c6415c566ecb7f133dfc750a2c4e231a042bb54bb8e2308f74ca739