Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 309f522141db11c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:22:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 27b3578da2d1ed1b5a14bbeae61990bc SHA-1: 858e82d983a306729a9b06aa98a16dae2ab17f45 SHA-256: 309f522141db11c70b8acecafe7fe6335af37c2011d482f124ec1fde8ec4035c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. This structure is indicative of a link farm, likely used for SEO manipulation or to host malicious redirects. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://brain-sh.tw/upload/file/buzixixade.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://techlan.pl/files/file/11721247212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070300d06dbf---24574532751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdr.friend-match.com/upload/files/povipifakezuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b3ba4862c---japezuluwinemuzubofote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f486b59ef5430654594eed745f4ac3d/rinedezodijuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fd012ed65adbcb263882ff277bfc314/87147301283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e516f0f66afd5363dc280a6268abb06/18557228068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudoku-cool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98541213828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e0876d12e6bc2cad154995760aee97f/supomerizajodagugudula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c3a76f384---tupedoxanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/592512530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/xamopesapajezamofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/98400245628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/wakozenikomefejanoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/53385368237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastersequipments.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64529998049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/94587851792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/gogatoguzuremenifomugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/mozubaxawetisimogaxuwabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b84be573ea---92567074963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/sekemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henklinders.nl/henklinders/upload/files/jumobufutilurakatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=transfusion+de+sangre+en+medicina+clinica+pdfPDF 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_off0000e5ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5AC 10928 bytes
SHA-256: ea776b4ca8fb210b21fb6beefa62a4885c92d5cce0215c42377799a22e4c8b8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB5 20524 bytes
SHA-256: 6eba1a58fd7271cec104c13c48d69ec807395d459cac4e7e10df58cc3c52b8ee
font_02_sfnt_off0001329f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1329F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1