Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 308f868facfe2b8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 973779390e56aef6bb4cc34581b52a44 SHA-1: ec592a33f7f5fa8bba11175d5125dd08318e0d1f SHA-256: 308f868facfe2b8a7016f01b6b9e9d33455fa043b75b466a6e8cbee5ba74223c
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites, which are designed to host further malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/nomodixozalobe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mk6q10fclk3d54n2iv6vdecod/sugofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9o4uk1ed2m45nqlvdnrn4f8ok/pututuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb921c0208f---vasogobifuwuseja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e959e25ae---52531254533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba62d89c4b6---wagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4683171250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/bezewanubosuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/votirerotobopaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210729145845137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/24511025031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tamilsaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29740046681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc2400e616---tasutewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plovdivweek.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufiker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b3ce1b8ae---16587000909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///63857811135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3b3261462---tutadabefevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a44388f97---baselinud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/90928443192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatstone.com/upload/files/nekitodugagidadarulamol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/37979317941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/52797170966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82543a4f9e---lexuserawuxalupapesisosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e287e5c833a99131f9a2db5bce360c7/16191423464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=algebraic+expressions+identities+class+8+worksheetsPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c92a7ecc04d03593bb16646742d93a/luwiburibamefusif.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_off0000c4d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE3 16764 bytes
SHA-256: 1171e621bbc9785328947c84c204294893d54d1e78e30e4594058d48ac13f21f
font_02_sfnt_off000107e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E0 11404 bytes
SHA-256: 883a10fbaa533fb658f98fb4f469228d5eee4893ccb6b780422c68628cc78e5c

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