Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ecf2db8c4beae17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 09:43:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c35a299b5ae508a9a61845c5b4d171a9 SHA-1: 9e2c9ce4081e317d1b26252060500c7b24f9d36b SHA-256: 1ecf2db8c4beae17d01a5209174d110a0b5288bf5f498d4d512180cc128e699c
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a link farm for SEO poisoning or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9862

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=to+cross+check PDF link annotation
    • http://msamericapageant.com/clients/873634/File/34748613995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607732bd768c8---31724752245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b4d5bfc47---41376557598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/26093404786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a840570566d---sonomoruvaratevewavesuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6868625156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/mazonofile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e534mvhvisk3n2ghr7odr29tbd/pufepuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imad0c0.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83839034781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/80889833991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15694bbe62---sojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greaterdeliveranceministries1.com/clients/61527/File/rodesataturamilizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607af137f0f32---67238765994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hn0vm8nsp3n5ie95qj073bt6gv/boxanavexivoguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1k2d6bpgu57cgavtme6pe85511/nawasolifubodedifezezital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dca6737fe087dfd8a8d6fe7a4869390/zalatepewozevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b5c001351---4567238514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/fogosakakapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d7d59e074b---45254723130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd97a5c0a940fbe2f0c9660825bf24f2/rovexoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f83f5d74231c700d5a4eda96889175c/wizedavawudawusoniwokupod.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00014b7b.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x14B7B 18328 bytes
SHA-256: d9f5e66163d907df9b2c2f031b8906ab183602eda4757f3e8ef428a9cf922d60
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE78 9880 bytes
SHA-256: f1cbc7d3a273cb0b57c79da6ced9bb5b16f25071e3ed596941c2306cc5d41da0
font_01_sfnt_off0001045c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1045C 3464 bytes
SHA-256: a8161c2f5ba9235eb51b4fcc43b6bb219725019365cb8d38f9ec25dfe5ce54ff
font_02_sfnt_off000111d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D7 23140 bytes
SHA-256: d0fcea11779981269fe0138be053506cffc5f5f4458de4bd895db2a00f349fff
font_04_sfnt_off0001691c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1691C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1