Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03287c1b95d12226…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-08-03 16:21:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0e416c9c2547208353d86ffe90d23e2a SHA-1: 5fc12dc4a51432215faeff357d58d74c7d97559f SHA-256: 03287c1b95d122262fdc6d8d7f8e081b256973176a9caa3f997cd7ba7fc58b19
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these sites to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to lure users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+spelling+test+paper+10+words PDF link annotation
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/53363023070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f05b1fc2d60---fozajonaxibuzadezezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39b467080a---5607475807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/futodawigeguzemaruwimizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.com/userfiles/files/zujaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210623110228857072787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f4833130c---78677832195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/totanosuwijafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatlekhanh.com/Images_upload/files/50977032497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/rasesebonogulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844dfaa3d8e---bubugomilipoguviruxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/9518630370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787314dfc43---68991082807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/44604765539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foxadv.net/file/besikisuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.it/userfiles/file/zeximiwesezexosasusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/ritedirenawisomufuforak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d672e8c9b---34973848603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826e635f9b0---gogenotevowufitiwogal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizarujajotivozit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19fbe73e8b1226099f16c25c760e29a5/sudurakapagiveruxabezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e05287625---vusovapise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/tijaki.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_off0000b9bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9BF 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 752310860b1bca439007bca19aa0838ccd3e0fa2c023befe66f3a6d47d26ffe3
font_01_sfnt_off0000d29e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD29E 16400 bytes
SHA-256: 0cb468fe5f28470692c12ccf2fbcda0a0b8ef6e58d06bba63f210a67faa33a96
font_02_sfnt_off0000fce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1