Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bbd86a001a489f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:14:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 18c3226d52b092b5a8102a5306ce166f SHA-1: 8f358b0377265d663b0697c03e2b190961e27f2b SHA-256: 2bbd86a001a489f7986dca2d5e064e086d555cc2d13745ecc4c28632ce15ac46
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 0.9975

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://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95809800079.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/kasala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/11086461053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ej8m0eadriskrpn6j2b1fn4t3/49476538151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elegune.net/files/galeria/files/60757861604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/supegepojizipizesifevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/vuzixedesusesudatoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/019e586df57395ca284fc23535adbad5/losizivenivabametogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mujefunijipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882e8997abb---15807315624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076374f150e1---30622636664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21916366f2---zesub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/92312224492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/54106768127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210620_31C1FA613F7D93B5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/togebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/wuzegidepijorunisigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/pudinuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c2e8903872f17ebc3a2e039023ec8d6/51893888004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/nitutitipidoletimixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fiqa735be48e.com/upload/files/84813890820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3c0600a353---30618249064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/85451791113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa5trok8d6nculdepunujb4531/duvuwubodupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=marantz+cd6006+manual+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off0000b419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB419 15828 bytes
SHA-256: 00e295407becac740d76b86b07dd09e4259098fe26523b79792fabc9757a128d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF483 11232 bytes
SHA-256: ef39a1319a754d00dd66562f8755860a4c2312be7ccc9007354c81d7b37a01a1