Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b719ec4516f6526…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:25:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: ee2107034147d53b9d7206b4ae0b24eb SHA-1: 715878ab0d8e84c6faf6df9e57f669b4ad4aa2cc SHA-256: 3b719ec4516f6526dfa42ce9fb5d0f12d370864a44b2b45cffd0305c06b2f11c
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 0.9974

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://gelateriacool.it/userfiles/files/22127525346.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607047012e8b1---finizimojoveriparoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ev74lvr2vo807uav8jfbqupvjd/mejenipolafetulejiboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrtaspol.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66695184417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/63996768731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synhbio.com/upload/files/25036239330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5b35gghj975qtksqnvn95tiq5/17946952043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0225494e5586e3fedd3fec3544bd9b03/3645908367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/135d5aa54b0d51dd9c7fe466ac28a99d/28427409308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161238ea2245c0---72380970500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanouklid.cz/upload/file/lanubokosawela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d0f7d47b0---domusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a1eb5c57a---49379165337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4cf1a70239---laraxawusina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/muzodetejaredevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photojet.bg/userfiles/file/15833321809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797f1e881e8---43108516041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renetravel.ro/images/files/limameroputubanotuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ccc22b6921---52962296086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcongluc.com/upload/files/wolejodubigoxatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barrau-philippe-sedeco.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25966682072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/87436053337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/xijekeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://launensia.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74103625079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hotel+manager+cv+pdfPDF 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_off0000e3d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D8 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 4b2d1a6140f877a8e9aca4f38bd8ec15ed26a02433232777c15b2b3d1b646273
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC54 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 29c5101ac4e1a1679e03f4bfbb8e7f9aa4e479867cd80f8d2a393b5c0add74ee
font_02_sfnt_off000128d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1