Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05615f7e5417ba8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:11:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 900e4aacfdc093ad13b418fd2ffb1e87 SHA-1: b60eb8d89f46cb5531aaefdbe2fc354c8c73d283 SHA-256: 05615f7e5417ba8e33be4743414364214116dcb0e2a32be525e3774cae8cb9a7
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. This indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve as a distribution point for further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://europacreativaeuskadi.eu/files/galeria/files/xegetufasiralugutu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d8bb12a37---81215579084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff6c3edca92---wuwofuganoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19880757880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotrusso.it/userfiles/files/lafosejolinotevapavexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/fizovaxopimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/kakodekutejafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantacyhandicraft.com/userfiles/file/78730081853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607108aa2a754---dokevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39374943164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/tenotadedusananexarusanem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d30206b44d---tebudanudefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atkarisuli.hu/userfiles/file/87045849281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad14ea06213---67670233702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/87023109605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/27642758682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddb6f62535---25356627873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harryfok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74813655411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwaywest1974.com/clients/861606/File/40603974448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smarttechsolutionukltd.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/jikoxibuzepaxodolupow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theleadershipworks.com/PO2/UPFILE/userfiles/files/14603649984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc41d07afe---lugane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf4a58d216a---39289155351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d5c9f4230c---7654253696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=spatial+ability+practice+test+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_off0000f407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF407 17856 bytes
SHA-256: 59057afbc95b144d1d33ddbe2f06fd8c27fcdd8befaf86da7467787dc8dbde9b
font_01_sfnt_off000121fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A14 10720 bytes
SHA-256: dfdfe9e8a202b4f8fbb91873833d9d06a8eeb42484246be985b433d906d572aa