Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4193c4a9205a34c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:21:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 98bccadce12cb31d82d9a1697cbf5695 SHA-1: a4ab01975c27f1c58ffce37874b70177176729dd SHA-256: 4193c4a9205a34c331c1f90ea9b86a7dcaf314a8bb7c7031236bc947b96c92aa
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/towodofanadipusogoxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://banerjeetourspecial.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84647090909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74dedbfa09---95058295801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6036d4a735---3892197182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608873445ee64---28006236191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/vilaxuvoranefubilikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb6690586b---kifatefijudekalogen.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://prograsifkalip.com/files/36118337739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24b786c2d8938b51aecf15fbe55c11a2/wogibaboloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc80dc9a94---mokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c0408156075be7d51034d3f8117299a/88378690526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/13466296064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7da8dce42ae539f054366b962e020cf1/galibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/60844667399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukhoabacninh.com/images/files/68388840777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konzolstudio.ro/uploaded_files/file/maduvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1980reunion.com/clients/e/e5/e5e9f74eb83211af097e98bf68d59c4c/File/kebitotelubowimadipowasuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1630126022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdale66ersreunion.com/clients/c/c6/c679c52642bc64dd8629b98fb95ccc77/File/fameluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-eria.pl/mandarynka/pliki/files/manufaradimamituxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanmuabancongty.vn/images/content/files/megunadof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jucariicopilasi.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/57254873695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=quadrupole+mass+spectrometer+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_off0000db89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A0 10744 bytes
SHA-256: aed7eaa808a500ac02ad41c6b6c24aa30bec494a9763f1cbeb5310c8010672d0
font_02_sfnt_off00010c72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C72 18596 bytes
SHA-256: ebbd04289eccc5ac76bb43140600f2c0b1bf11c24e28b4c04881848a54125c2d