Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 123df6666ee69e58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:55:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1f0cadfd444e7d7cafd326d7d2d7ddb1 SHA-1: cc166a1417889fccec4941a518b62ee5dde21836 SHA-256: 123df6666ee69e584d7fc9f47806cf270850b2fdf2940c78f172525e1669f5ea
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised websites. These sites, in turn, host other PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage distribution or phishing scheme. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external URIs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+blackpink+forever+young+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7690a79cbda24a95c121ecdee408252b/dozujonesevabaxivovana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/539b46053c85f6fab277d4bca8c8d6ea/92272270561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/65604447878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6de1ralkjqlnu2i2h1s6joatk3/2752329255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a067789bb9---zigazoveketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e89c547ae3424d93373fee89bf2b887c/9977817975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd90f670886---7088028028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088eb6b1a702---87148735670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okjrq9dlbsu19tnk0hujg1gip7/juxejek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/82158681541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29deac30a9---risas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbac5ad18e9---sajavabimedujitore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f88ea55ce---dofusudazenobovofewajinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4df40199c5a185ea854324eed97aaf6/8398134523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/lenigemofojofir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/tufumigesigomowowuninajiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///62047345429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/sukulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zekiwapoxebavipida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea4c50f0ab---93141925145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/94536640708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/gojuwogakulunalabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD786 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFC 2612 bytes
SHA-256: 7cf0a595c07eb280cc3810cdb810657c86209c88b9596b1ec8e0e1afbfa5b4ce
font_03_sfnt_off0000f7db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7DB 17256 bytes
SHA-256: abf4c186ab613a549f27b4a6fd8b765db569961be2fdda7f40541cb0437d74fb
font_04_sfnt_off000125b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B4 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 88b04e42bf0df4773e954c2ca302d7489e7ea61dd8eba67112fefb1273a94934