Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34dbbdd6e186203b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:18:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9351d79332a3cf8f355980cb88088658 SHA-1: 355e69e11da7498eb1440c12ae79104d43caadd5 SHA-256: 34dbbdd6e186203ba753f6a60829297d24000e54472457aead7b9b878a48a46f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, a common technique for distributing malicious content or conducting phishing campaigns. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and heuristics identified compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious document intended to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xcom+2+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sczct.com/up_files/file/26386135360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.nl/userfiles/file/95948547825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevefuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/59046136607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozszemle.hu/uploads/files/rogabugubujutifijusarazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katisuvezome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zakarpattya-tour.com/upload/63890953511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/88146278569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134bcb4ac5ce---bedefugemuxana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2daytour.com/ckupload/files/95475906362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadon-dientu.net/images/files/tirukezamawafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzolerogizotubajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132844476d3c---61991439612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/tutajajapunegazamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d26eec4d7---kijegozit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liily.jp/upload/file/20210916093502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naitikfashions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63739122335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamor.org/userfiles/file/vumuvinuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/9528128954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmeasar.com/mmeasarfiles/file/96551668906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/wibifuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/piseniwebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf955117e8d3a257c6fc7da480afcb63/fosunamelajebebososigokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/22013260072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324123136e5---zigegoworekowi.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_off0000b6f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6F3 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 11f1502057c0cbe1b3172f3d35edbee274828a25fed247cd90bd11a692c4be32
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDCF 21184 bytes
SHA-256: 49c3cb25e06129f68c8c8f2529f701082944e7611d3514a1a32aceaa2c96d05e
font_02_sfnt_off000104c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1