Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 049dc1048a2c8652…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:12:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: d97fbbf11423eb00adc7b89edfdac80c SHA-1: 77353688f2623208dfee3dc4b1af1e619016773d SHA-256: 049dc1048a2c86520204fd52e5109ad8c8f0a8d4e8a451e3eeef82fd87c30c88
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 0.9979

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://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4817ab0094---93992984784.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607746afd13c1---73303343545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bya-ingenieria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93839968076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1bda74695f---jikipoguburaxubonuzeteda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6032f84e8f---tavufivewetelevugivoxuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzion-pod-rozhlednou.cz/img/file/51656622901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acutecardio.ru/sadm_files/kavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082525130a1a---dowapesupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082790276f53---73913451650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec1a86e01b924df66d781c17afa9a515/34346657214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweddlefoto.com/files_contenidos/upload/files/zekaxazijejesujerogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nb5frpqqhr0k89f9ejrs1e23md/busavuwekirakinopet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/voviwetidevatazugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f009020aa---nelebajalonusukemasaloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0f736020d---39678561244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071285f4991e---19185190291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/46450429641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6838cb3158---85171438077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/93668453000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/dufuvijopunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zibelenufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kafvam2g1iftlvpjvn039u1u2/mimezirugivebojomotodave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/68291304967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ocean+waves+and+tides+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000ee1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE1A 10688 bytes
SHA-256: c88cd0cbe60369f418c50a0872c27334b2a4c2632172f068411620e2a0e94d72
font_01_sfnt_off000106a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A9 18048 bytes
SHA-256: e58c72bc3c6c58e37c4dad9090d8299b285de29e6041ad38a02f7cd6464591df
font_02_sfnt_off000134dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1