Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4687bab1d9fba2e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-08-29 09:11:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 7cfc69a28b9381369a11630e55438aae SHA-1: e429fc23b3408bdc1ab059503d7c8ff4322e9c38 SHA-256: 4687bab1d9fba2e863a41cd3cac3404c9a95e023f0adec6df2de018cb17a93bd
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 0.9993

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://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/48576360318.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070620194d8a---vakafiwaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/11224675455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/fixubesifirewoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9m8kr39ars68gobkl0o5umi75/nelimolupeginomimakaxovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0b73ad7baa---23998643898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/27951127297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/34217027536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rttn89u6bh610rn5371shso82o/11856405519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/notejudemaluxitixuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/51350136242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f44df0ebad1f8788233ef32f2195e77/69862886941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a31d0d743049074ac827ade09b3c6b5/filozelukate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e6e3ab585d---93515898289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/31947879056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc06e9d250d---18314004964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084473fa2fff---fomevuluzana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/nafeluzaxabelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodphotoshop.com/userfiles/files/fujofixitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuguxuriviguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levakov132.ru/userfiles/file/penivafixujakunenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4agob5c7sq38g1po5hpg99fg0/bufavilasaribenof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cite+lecture+materialPDF 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_off0000d069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD069 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 18c873510e476d89d15fd4f2bd849377ebc9c328b23c9cb9fe1202f1c7cb6677
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCE 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 6f66cfdd03880290924d930c0fe0ce73bb0b4570ec7c708ab5e2733df4351e52
font_02_sfnt_off00011406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11406 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1