Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33f18d50e42aa642…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-08-17 07:43:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 31e1ac233c1d1e50eacbda64cedcc58d SHA-1: b52e75b72fb004ebaf3b7caa3428f438b8db9349 SHA-256: 33f18d50e42aa642428916ccb09e12c57c73059af93c22bfb89a56a0c3a393dd
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 0.9977

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://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/90055261098.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/98656705786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ba1487a8ac714434d754c191127358/nazewunozazomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/bagubifenufofusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eccdc.org/application/webroot/userfiles/file/75329174060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43ae6e91af1e8be5d5a1ab3d2df1bfab/62206968169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/paxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117b74a55f14---51714646623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf1e71b2a5---40262599925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techniq.ae/admin/uploadfiles/file/rowilidate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/019f23fcec6120873110aa81fc86fc43/pesutorefukedarisogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/14565523677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c6f7d8e60---girudinaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/75307697148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/439f2c199d3f1b7b32148eab1f0caac4/pumadesaxizexelonirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cb603b75f---wemigona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849a8edaa0c---33924068307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee34b4590b6c5d10e7b819418e55e195/duparinilulabisojuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47639043659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/plk070eulhqvf4ufp0dp2d4f23/busulalozujiwewokonewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsafar.ir/basefile/tsafarir/files/94590052906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09f606ced8---lugelezibamutunila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9faa602e8d---voruvirosobuxawujeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=dewalt+drill+bit+guidePDF 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_off0000d818.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD818 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 45c62125a64cb31a7e5d4a3df80150e206eb9a3ddf20b1f8bbf08174d84bc461
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF6E 16260 bytes
SHA-256: 059077b4b4ef7befd0049da6de98953f3bbbfd53e4cad261a13c834e24b408f8
font_02_sfnt_off000119a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1