Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a4cf79b6584dc1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:56:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2718d0ccea2dd0b511a2f41d3ee02396 SHA-1: 476120546e026333edc65964a7c9c8a1433a8272 SHA-256: 3a4cf79b6584dc1cf907afa270948c7118faaffbe5ca518c45ac9fa9e75bc999
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and multiple heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, suggests a tactic to redirect users to malicious content or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wizuxewavekewobi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/488513473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://civilkontroll.hu/uploads/file/44620629612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/niwibifolewej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/fadakuzelovesuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce6b10b121---dimalimibaderidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51423951262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/59310614523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaupureinternational.com/userfiles/file/25040464808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbigas.net/media/files/73692671785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilboamedia.com/userfiles/file/89136330703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.com/ressource/site-image/files/kilanesiluvofuparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escritacontabilidade.net/fotos/news/file/64825530008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aukuras.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luzexerilanizezatekexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aludj3q913rtnnd02rip94huj/zerejusazuzelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/85983413932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietcem.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/puligugavosoduramikeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d642748391---72684926271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/mobipetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/jikefakefuxalovopuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomontironi.eu/userfiles/files/bofotozazuroxerofokazikag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145480be220b---3646395646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plantbiochem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wabuwexemavoxonovava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=she+was+dating+a+gangsterPDF 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_off0000d753.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD753 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF65 16592 bytes
SHA-256: c3b6b58b7b794ff659efdd00b9b2162088cabdbcbfb4616f68314fb83f328dae
font_02_sfnt_off00011a69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A69 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 5d9badaaa7165d6fbc066ce83400fc1b08b598b2abe0625473e3f357c730db46