Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e6a5074ec64f600…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:20:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 698ba942fd4b93c67d08a18eb5619312 SHA-1: 8bf7b04d1476b2c18860529b00a100c9ecb54652 SHA-256: 1e6a5074ec64f600abc3dd5971ec9cb9435d59d4388502a29e11e5b3151ea441
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised hosting or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://premiersuli.hu/files/files/fidosinak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/29291534344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7dae6fcfa---53809478793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/30109859631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.vn/uploads/files/nopoganulojesamumosono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnow.jp/js/upload/files/28107173156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55136784964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paeonia.ch/userfiles/files/kidopijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rintoyo.com/userfiles/file/53683247130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021091004594160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d4c1d9fa429171ef1259299db89a3f4/rijivugititutonedotomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.com/users/file/lakudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0922.sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/lofimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlabiura.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89424340587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be90031b24---nofugapetilifamowosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poliinc.com/upload/files/4243201868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/wupevirulorupimopunidavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/67357720008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makojudo.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/10952341079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358cf91d55f---89104667676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68072c9f8a6c3edee3cf3e739866be66/2280177446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38e3fb1f19b8f6f17ac5a38f9a190577/53362230238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/zifixebeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+fps+can+a+human+seePDF 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_off0000dabd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDABD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D4 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 454a224aa966ce6048ddf7f183b7b2d08b1fb520cb52f65ecd621788b81dc5d6
font_02_sfnt_off00010b42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B42 17564 bytes
SHA-256: 9504e9fbb3d3dc128554db4e611cd7ef96be2c3c9bbe1f95810b2ac104d3d894