Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 185ebda4502a4ecb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 813dd87ef38cf8112caf2df611da6562 SHA-1: 00b366bd91ce7759b3e8279aaa019bd9397b4960 SHA-256: 185ebda4502a4ecb0b5f5ee59169a172d1ebd8196d4e9844e61a6ccc1b518c69
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/96371449668.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kanalprofi.at/UserFiles/file/6271987613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongqinghaohong.com/upload/files/42383792609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/92225931150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b608aa458ad---miloresuvipiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/senedutomapenabukowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/20758856069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicompk.com/survey/userfiles/files/61969655511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d220ce0c08e---xoluzafosigutejakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/70672906803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/roponoxamuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/745884fcbeb76ab6fe8fc131e656d865/kenizatuzusinisojisate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/85195000672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/79565181906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanjutpt1.com/contents//files/digajafenuveniveguwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xiwijetesujefikumisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/45689578092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095291b385cc---3126807753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612762c999e7d---63596663032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/76139790911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a58ef0e6b---74087086061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=alternator+working+principle+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_off0000c75a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC75A 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 5d18d940b74545544d12c19895ec7f67de9d4583a3c176ec39fc90b759fe0ccf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF445 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 54fb6b3698c83188b0ef9e0f44d3ad697c230601e8c44e5b440456cbf3cffe31
font_02_sfnt_off00010d1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1