Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d2d0dce75930293…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 10:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d93345fb2b2a1e2d082e7b10e28859cb SHA-1: 5024971b53f3d8e6973489b80179ef106edf7723 SHA-256: 2d2d0dce759302938e69507c5297cb2b8c75dc5244fc3d67cc7f36fab4f1d5a5
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites, which are part of a link farm designed to deceive users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tower+bloxx+my+city+apk
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe11aa2e47---webunorigak.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342f20652a4---gomotelil.pdf
    • http://48bulls.com/js/upload/files/18687313309.pdf
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1u7aj0stpn4lkt14772g8b7l61/33720549168.pdf
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/66575169009.pdf
    • https://regenerateacademy.com/file/61044496190.pdf
    • http://www.farnostbobrova.cz/ckfinder/files/86648009519.pdf
    • http://islaminkiel.de/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/21700998894.pdf
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17670075950.pdf
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/nudinokisipodudal.pdf
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/74570214322.pdf
    • http://kraemer-duennebacke.de/files/file/66326377682.pdf
    • http://speakingaboutnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zozifepedemol.pdf
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/35840008703.pdf
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpo8vqmrrapndaq8a3eblofaco/48901066297.pdf
    • https://tidymoney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexutimu.pdf
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/115da88a5ea316e8b24b42315c75e8af/bufusa.pdf
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1612f0771cd239---vanolofejikidi.pdf
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/78806048555.pdf
    • http://kitpaisal.com/mypicture/file/bufibezoturitefuw.pdf
    • http://www.gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54729023085.pdf
    • http://aylabawadi.ae/userfiles/file/jupojemekubuvat.pdf
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38510651723.pdf
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/29578170076.pdf
    • https://kligi.viart.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38237936000.pdf
    • http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewel.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b92f.bin
3b10e35585dd4984098ca43f65cac4ba99e21a6c40fc3ea005e8871387aa19ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB92F 10760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1d7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1D7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9e9.bin
83e00ff9511c650b1583ed07ca277323eae298ff81550aea1b789281da940ee8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E9 18900 bytes