Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bcbc7e14a08da2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 07:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2ca59f9f2d52cf1259bc589872b22229 SHA-1: fefc7b708cf391ede7d742cb35dc4cc97ac18726 SHA-256: 1bcbc7e14a08da2a62431ecffe55dd4413b24206e9c377addab67eb0503208bc
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection to malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and numerous URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=biggest+island+country PDF link annotation
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/38295428464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30808053488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovna-krumlov.cz/userfiles/file/fipifosogaroguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614118aa6d16b---nawugibepokevudixof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/31224486550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/userfiles/file/20210901153356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luseguwedere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/piwabejujeropebudopef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/89892893734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1898143052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://molecult.metallo-tests.ch/sites/web/upload/files/vuvukana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/vekalefoxasemixoromof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/89474591089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tatajofulubuvurivevabese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675e2d400cfa5b8cef0ab6af280ad072/83543345971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/nujakifuwewaluko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mc-opony.pl/files/file/27274363157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/tafalajapawoniloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoraccessories.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/10149835692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm300159.agchost.com/userfiles/files/kidewizufewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/movevubogedonunukavijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chornakorn-packing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9082193935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/94288292525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumahbaruku.com/contents/files/60953813762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c762ee06e---poresapirutomutowariliwi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010dce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000125e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E5 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 5d48f34880bb53695fb51ef3d9fd539151872e32cd9b50d99ad8d5e73a72141e
font_02_sfnt_off00013ec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EC9 21112 bytes
SHA-256: 9875a7455fa0a2ebd5314ebc2a7a77eeb9f130e9f380c9dcfa27cac189ef95cd