Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b4e2e2a6fa2b7f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-07 07:23:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: e8e9251ddb2535c101da064ead0d5d8d SHA-1: 1de766a6d7716e73aaf0d3486293253b2c444bc4 SHA-256: 1b4e2e2a6fa2b7f14b3cf47765b7f1ce0f2d5d17918b1863e5bb4eb96439d158
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 0.9996

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+5+whys+technique PDF link annotation
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b92d39f07124aeb9d6965d0adc7b64/74895010928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7ebeb9992256156fe759f01cb1508a6/zoxisolofipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/54569048056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/58390993244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fe49a1c1310d67b72e30b97358c727f/dubepemeduzadezupesilakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6beiea1k4p3hbfj2no916f9kb/nutizugowemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af68025792e---lipanobugatekokoroxisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1fbb6e3d6---fowibupepafowijuliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074009ae4aad---rukokenebisubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cz/upload/53079082471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numberonerevolution.it/file/86104070714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/xuzimumigerirujinas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1eafd6bd6---ravevixagetabixerim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/zovetuzone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/23332154082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA65 4836 bytes
SHA-256: 971550aa8032fd57d33ca4302da702e1a0447db583327f1e66367f9686a2036b
font_01_sfnt_off0000faf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF3 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 1073526932fe093ccce90bd98e888a5ebc321aebc959901b6dab0c29a3298d8f
font_02_sfnt_off00011fae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FAE 16152 bytes
SHA-256: 4c749685205449bf3c18e17ec73b64556036776370ca451ab9a2bfd59c72e694
font_03_sfnt_off000134b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c