Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 326e4eb61b3e479a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:47:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e46cd26e7bde1209d99b9a185bf7b93a SHA-1: 7c5d32ef80dfedd12ff1aa08a1a38bc53439b266 SHA-256: 326e4eb61b3e479a5a61b9fb299ea9f8e130bca1de20ffb8d2d41cf1c297bf39
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this PDF is designed to lead users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://tokyo-sanritsu.com/userfiles/file/linomumejitevakoniluz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/935bb9caa43d0498e426db6d5494a6e6/wokonukabafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutokal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/dibewapikejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/61477164581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salespate.com/userfiles/file/19008888933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pixureku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaan121.com/uploads/files/202109140737199005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/37953884468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/julajane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/43992008100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/tibuluzaxakete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/101e8bd27935d385206cc0a02e7e163e/86531196445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/63832848907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b849418c9f260e1d5038369ae1c40d09/26135956007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94548921735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/55177581620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/segodokubufatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://due.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4049323590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poganyvolgyi.hu/userfiles/file/ludiwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miraesusan.com/ckupload/files/pazanujazave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210902155016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexus-custom.com/js/upload/files/tixunosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/44936484911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/59162982159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+galaxy+grand+prime+stock+romPDF 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_off00011a51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A51 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 952a0ca2144af4fcc1df9593754c1dc4491b6104459ed75918c8a1509bd8ff56
font_01_sfnt_off00014621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14621 11340 bytes
SHA-256: effebc7a3f7380899c53e9b9d23007f57199d3bf7192056ca59870805e891dea
font_02_sfnt_off0001609e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1609E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1