Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43945653a73e9a41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-06-08 03:27:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: c12eb075f6356235b71556c710e8bd81 SHA-1: 93576c01e2d40d751a2e6d8e5e693718c957c34d SHA-256: 43945653a73e9a417afc797c153778a1f8970ce902666176163fe48f653e9ac3
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 0.9998

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+app+games+download+jio PDF link annotation
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/53036935399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4796d8aad---zakamajokinizafoludel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e1f77374f---28289919067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misspacificus.com/clients/873634/File/25377133335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f59748955c---9285611037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c0fd72531e329c4a78d0d573a6ba501/gavodemen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/93776637536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7cbe9d2e7---kizesejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/namomutuzunijobaxisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0m4t8hessk5sasagf226e50v4/dutazokame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/3206162680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/62780082922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54615e71c13f5026a0c9d4232cdd3028/66793341422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e70d0d885c9d1b87c8e56124ab18d17/todubimisipanaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8a08271bf01612829a62b9dc934e040/56441929152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db82338540---fetivugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E4 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 058616380d6829c950135970685d03f0f35d725d89348d7b068ab2e4b41ce2c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e50d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE50D 10180 bytes
SHA-256: d4475c742deba300c1d2bd1c06eb9c9e279d37f1bcfde4fcb24f4979ea7ba4da
font_02_sfnt_off000107f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378