Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b7c2bce17ed4439…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:27:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c8a72e4f1585f45a58323b94a1c79a50 SHA-1: 53366072844e4e35f2b80eab0fc8a4aaa34f92ae SHA-256: 0b7c2bce17ed443928a4eab1907e5b87f5f16e5479348bc47e8baa3d9198cda8
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple distinct hosts and link farm heuristics supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves leveraging these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080764ac2fa1---matan.pdf
    • https://zegabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/buriwunusijo.pdf
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/81977758697.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070acdc4a021---jaxapagalolinawemos.pdf
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.org/documentos/file/75338547464.pdf
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/55733302766.pdf
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac582b655e541cbe7cb6f0d955f0401f/72139622880.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f514421386---10501603704.pdf
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798d92b4596---69709892381.pdf
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d048b4087e50a967f3c87ed46c1b7b00/54518653939.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733291f096b---vukakilat.pdf
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e478053cd2893be83c11b14138b74e8f/36437621554.pdf
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizokiduteguwujusazuma.pdf
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/64756656970.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f041f96fdf---53793629546.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99d0367d58fa01d8ed4127b1942c0c13/fufotaposivodaruwibup.pdf
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/dadegofumolawikexesopob.pdf
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/fisopibabitobabapigitik.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5d10ba052---bamabekekafif.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd141f0832---69620713907.pdf
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210622232627161989.pdf
    • http://forumcutuca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotifujawunoj.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=songs+about+finding+yourself
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b6c6.bin
2b19114b393f94d43d081ba3d49b94bb293a97a045be65e923d857be9994e574
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6C6 10960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d027.bin
e5bb0dc6c106c6ab2b6061c41442a71b79e2826145fb35ad17436bfa43c9cec4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD027 15772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7bd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7BD 16792 bytes