Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b145a5ff3e8eff6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-08-20 11:20:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7711c0f51a4085ad37b3effcc00a7301 SHA-1: 1d3293f5800f55238f0f7fdd03283acc16193c60 SHA-256: 2b145a5ff3e8eff61f25326a23e7fa79f522de82a73c97b6e2e15f9986e51101
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to distribute or host malicious content through these links. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bissell+proheat+steam+cleaner+instructions PDF link annotation
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/92547206223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cascatai.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vonevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083840b9d9e6---77057821180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcvurkdssrvneuf37n4oo3qlf1/bewuxujumilazifibolosan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/52014425123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15a7kiake09r7e3sgbp4glsb53/59280063470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwferrellpkwy.com/uploads/files/58241505287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/zamis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/zurivumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-3/20210603163814491331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c7d83e4e6333e956f1a6706d5e6fc68/leserixabasibuwozadaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/81583825416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/noluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6d292cf74---11588064576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascii.tn/web/cgi/file/72484543272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/79180010871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.vn/uploads/files/21552357719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mqskin.com/luutru/files/89324211079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/todizexixulikefumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f24b52534d2---malubijusazakazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fc37d37aa---63219818822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d0691fb7b---terefibujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlh6loo3mqdqffad1oq594hukm/begogawimakuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicminorities.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/tozixazat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/65423298869.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_off0000e0bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BC 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 7e27fe16db015aab1801bae59f41ec6239b55b21e5c420c6cbc852de96efe407
font_01_sfnt_off0000f969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF969 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001117b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117B 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 8ac1fbb9024c0a9e377f0042f310c7ed15214732381e82f9450f9557d0c13815