Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 232e866708760de7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-08-23 16:12:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 73a86ff4913555a4b2d62faffac017fa SHA-1: cf92051276d4f675f42ab5c414152677097d84b4 SHA-256: 232e866708760de7b4d298a10442fc637687240fb7b444dbad733e0ac02dca37
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 websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious payloads via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://studiopol.com/userfiles/files/gizatevowajoxafez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807e42385f281119b3ffa58a4daa5f0f/mamifebibetikete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/didonasalawiroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuszdounky.cz/files/85378585048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1628864488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b3cd1c828a5da9e463844ac1c25b509/79189156409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/likalewojuzulozedogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/43975386345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ne36sg53hibrbli7hqfk07et6i/winutitewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/rumili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080v7i4fjicubni6f594807pks/dapenilomivaremuxabunoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio.com/contents//files/30462155795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b27a159d7---wolubasipepoxiwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079116d9bb73---73560532777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eb4fd44a7037f4c06ee0f8fa1e54bc9/misojijax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbconsulting112.ca/userfiles/files/naguvevutabamebamadibapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinusa.com/userfiles/file/1627861628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/99794580505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/31649707812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/30003538628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3e93c06ab---dukevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/bazazudamoxipigamakavelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/017e23bd1fc9ee093529b58f2a67a418/75106387951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02n8as8uulvt9jqed5jfm77fc9/getipixolizipaxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f72f8d3979---4797192118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=paracord+weaving+for+beginnersPDF 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_off0000fc81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC81 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 3fc49b0c08ba79d06887ede5e7ed0a3331e2f38719982c64d3d15b8329fee899
font_01_sfnt_off0001155d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1155D 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 3e3cdce9330f95c397fcb9af2e79779bd70dea9f8f2c875539b843de85a54276
font_02_sfnt_off00014019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14019 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1