Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05aa7b3483ec3c68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-06 04:38:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: c23a148b1fbec18aa208a0447d78c3af SHA-1: 7db10ef49cf6f2a14310a01a5114a994980673b2 SHA-256: 05aa7b3483ec3c68cfa4b2c9000aaf08a50ed96daac6fdf2a2f17efcaad91f1c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. This pattern is indicative of a link farm, often used for SEO poisoning or to host malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc09fe2bdb2---figagilegabejulitozax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/zejotufevipegodepakanupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0ck6l6hp97sfp273jg1i1i3bn/nunoxekanuxovotut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f732f4c4ec---mitenubefepofowumare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://info56.ru/userfiles/file/jegobof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609557ebb5cd7---20403451423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607433d0d6605---18599190602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///janojakubuwibefukajujitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c15b64a512d2a6ae8e2039cdb5025421/27704635195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/488325cc5416a32fadc15c8dea0377ba/sedinogejasuzopizovaneni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c018e6f53---janabuzexuvoxijevibuvozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/81707166838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/81030524655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lu67.com/clients/50962/File/93200856287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/58970673163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1742e3b92b4830948623d20f72e76b87/42698208956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021062500532773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/xunago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/dixarudukasojabibaxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botorka.ro/userfiles/file/zalimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43518cc8f1---dotidubamajegiwolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/22473700125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/448a8b4de6cd4964bb01c7b1acdfa716/10075186154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minipowerpack.net/upload/files/17785700967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd3cf010c8774a4e234005bb35dccce6/nedudido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-moonlight.com/CKEdit/upload/files/52363410421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+colour+of+starch+solutionPDF 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_off0000f436.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF436 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C4D 10528 bytes
SHA-256: a267349f8f4b6fbeadf797da454d95d717648a7a6351c4be6d0473cbde58e22b
font_02_sfnt_off0001243d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1243D 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 1d22012edb5d2aafbce9d5770dffdde62330e835078077e07c2d723912353bd5