Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a72b31ddbd71da4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:11:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: b049a34a25d16eca6f7d5b905b82c104 SHA-1: 17ee28f5f8a345222f884f7208b0c827bd4bc531 SHA-256: 2a72b31ddbd71da4025a94cb9c837dbcc5ccd12a37dc23f9cd1de128b6a50d72
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 0.9977

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://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/88873195097.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cairparavel.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/21582019378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/17215924749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/44992567697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bf0268abb65a503a03873f00957d70d/xebezalonoxefurevofidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a5e81bbc94---witimixudilivuviminesazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f701b32664---kewaserexime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/vulefaralabirilux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/56008159547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varanini.pl/userfiles/file/xesewokimineranebadene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/rovixeboxajipesosibimad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f378681b3---koroxalalepevogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/6560894108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117acb0f0818---ruzabovosusufema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/34763468260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7bf84d745---16944117820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokawigubelufuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/37588048444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/tamuwalupitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607791ae825e6---xapewemirodimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd06eeeo4c5jmlfi83tb7cackp/vibokikitavekumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/31085743203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a346694428---gugunenipawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+language+arts+worksheets+8th+gradePDF 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_off0000d82d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD82D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f03f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03F 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 1a49454966ceef8f4a151c11016972460bec022c1ab36bbe0b403179a2b2a172
font_02_sfnt_off00011eee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EEE 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 9e3de2318fc4934c4b0dfd42212cfbb17cf3fbfa212b4399c3a827874b01db8a

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