Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 193c32834c048417…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 05:08:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: e6eeba354c42e85a853a7de069e0f8c4 SHA-1: 443dc7d354ab66d4eaaa1c8f243881f6f3a7aacf SHA-256: 193c32834c0484177279ee84ec57f3554dd0d8c0259b91119cb4f946a56d484a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/13416745322.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/pawugakuzalefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/sesokidulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vititanon.com/user_img/files/98199214788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenskafik.se/uploads/fckeditor/file/mudorijalaxeviwijimoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a40ba96b18---tidodiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a315c7b57---golenawugupetubuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/fetuzoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/69731416294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdsps.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/22181316349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613024d7ebb11---69020266418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgc.to/sites/web/upload/files/67414990187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi2.com/contents/files/kekobimisajuroxugade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/6399749962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogadiruzixem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nilesk.com/userfiles/file/42890890128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/25438946841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aifimm.it/admin/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47749589018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/69261330314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packamate.com/userfiles/jokopuxikafonig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kabezaxapupapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71131484880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatename.com/uploads/files/202109231307333358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhodnoceni-penez.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/42938529269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/gukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/poravopobipevofinol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=drag+race+modPDF 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_off0000b134.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB134 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c94b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94B 10204 bytes
SHA-256: b9746c8569dc782ad30c1658b33a66955d5f7aa3d51d515b71b270adb17abaa8
font_02_sfnt_off0000dff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF1 14644 bytes
SHA-256: 0c432796755dbbbb76b1db20f0e0e7f9ef19376891b0441555090b2ce3c0cb84