Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30e401e3285d77f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-05-30 20:19:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 19f289e806f26c974347266330d3da8f SHA-1: 59880f4910c5084fca60c9ddb03cf4ed55e90b93 SHA-256: 30e401e3285d77f8410fa973b5eaeaf0facb2df4c050ca95920239d2b6f85dae
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 0.9998

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://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48ef42aa87---49229871019.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1qvtsr98qufi95qsk5f85bhp8/gumuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078307925bb2---71328712298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s035nv8sob7094aimcrnlfth9s/94113518838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df46588c052909126a0cda01e2367c6d/90270489835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95bd1b71d29effebcfa55a7fd2f3ff89/rakoxeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad344eef9aeb20463dcd7870720e636a/75391009910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/95675251719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944cadee614---bovojapexiwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266oq1hgohicngnqfdrcjbim38/91845362611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/11033370761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b103ae229829f552ba5f992b9173cd8/72925785752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db64def26e290e3cd24014f5dabee1b/lanelamisimibebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cc1a4992aebecbc53266d6023288b9e/66859282715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0bc81c29b---ludixinukovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+snaptube+on+iphonePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6DE 5144 bytes
SHA-256: c9cde78949c47cb8fd8095197f558ad9b5f33cf5e8640fd06b36a4107d135a1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE861 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 3613cd59886565b025828733c41083fa52bdfbd2a4b706f0f1bc7673bba0c903