Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f1cec69e1a0bc4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 06:33:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 71e63e6d49ee7809375d16b09c10f5d0 SHA-1: c8bdfb28890a82b5a3e5c27acd699990ae865100 SHA-256: 0f1cec69e1a0bc4b5f580ff0b3c5d845b3b4be1cfcae260f34e0a5c5152ed5c3
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or SEO-manipulated content, rather than executing a direct payload from the PDF itself.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d99781b8bb4d0366860af4817a8fe2/kajimubesuzikagu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fg2emhof7np1jnflq6adb0am0/zapudebudofufilosefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/28212352354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/guxirubafezunupudufekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7112c24b9---10027684001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/sesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc5dd3496c22175890e2bad328d7fe77/74355439293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6a81d0fcac0cf14da0c798afa24a1cc/73412299087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/84738957919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b297da45c3---dobukonubabarapago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc09800ab6---35453846100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/17314484601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/sugufuwiwulefanokezabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608508250b695---gimesevujeluko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fdf2a5b4d---63289572287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/13524679042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fcb23e620---ruxubigokopikozezasuzavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/talopigelubiraxowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1966.com/clients/8/85/85e9e0a76fddb83d7689cebc6ab07fae/File/44538187270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/91988295096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/piwelusoselifisejopivadob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinawin-consult.com/userfiles/77659904733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenhungstone.com/uploads/image/files/90373105081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/tujimikudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltoplancers1975.com/clients/13753/File/94869572868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2467b647bbba7134ea478ec19252516/sugobewamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef7a76f7e2---lirupebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92aeeba469f1e81a1f517d2e067c16ec/82619393645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+keto+diet+as+a+veganPDF 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_off00011679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11679 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012e8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8B 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 3db2e34af0a200a425533d59d3ff46d18bc5d7526c46f4a09906c1d152151951
font_02_sfnt_off00015cab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CAB 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 96d6d34a9caf7accbe6fbe4820ea278d1ec181c280a08c8c0482dffd22768140