Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d94dd325f1a3e0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 11:17:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cce82d713c33d855d32a78adb021e935 SHA-1: 1676d2fa9ff74dd675f368b7f13c49ef14ff45b8 SHA-256: 3d94dd325f1a3e0a59100ead94aafca845026df60dde56e86abb136f572aa2f7
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt to lure users to these 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hybridization+of+c+in+co2 PDF link annotation
    • http://trendybiz.in/usersfiles/file/fiwuwewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/pedejuduvanuzorekemipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/26083747282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2573a6bb9c---64642170796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831c6c3e21a---79797135246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womenwhorockarkansas.com/clients/4/4c/4cfcdabbb7b8ad81bafe9a4295858145/File/vamavisegaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0b6847c01---getafoxepudenizixerenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4b2b3b698---guzagosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.net/d/files/36738032906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/49241354907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/panunexazeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0oghoj36n96mbqltrthnbhpos5/71320340928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/63539968206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c958dc3a9de---38648349891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/vurenujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/36482942117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e7c6f4cee2c00d91b92008e9048bbf6/riwututaxifalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d39ee128ffd---petop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statenbracy.com/clients/d/d3/d362857cea7b6c304c7898dd6c6993b3/File/kixefivixuwibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/290c6b13a7fbc00d97e87646547bf652/36824950959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bd564fea7---liwuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soliangco.com/contents//files/lidinuwepobivolosizo.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_off0001095a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095A 17712 bytes
SHA-256: e07dbd595ef7bf6a80da081a7db745fd9a21f58c4dfa73e94f03549b23edb78b
font_01_sfnt_off000137f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15009 10548 bytes
SHA-256: fae61117c105ff7e0d413e9f0256549f494a93a5f5dece6b6c9ff6e83bcf5653