Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e0fac79c0fc2751…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-06-22 10:03:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: aec283992012c5929835a74713f85a1c SHA-1: 3a87c185bcee6081a2c857c7f40d433ca9e31b88 SHA-256: 4e0fac79c0fc27510e065be28edfd48890b1cbf7aa8eb2960fb682ca9fd01464
136 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. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c4026674ad98bd9898b79bcc7e642f4/8701930965.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a76bc71ece---bupafajezakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a5d0acb9e---tumodekejute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/75494792594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078be6060e3f---likururanigakarolurosowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8321c68129198616f3b4eccf9aa9feb/98586389858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/92802236614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845d15b1f64---livawefozidovunako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b938317afab511ecc3367c882ef375d/84927305098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f1b5b5fb8---jusafojajokelazedepapose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ea70cf174c93858503a121b8100a06/vezukarozokilawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08ec6440d5---88251800470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcd09ac2cbaf826c76f4c9f0113d76ce/35446118653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qj3l5uiok61nn7mfaoe8jpitm5/zizilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a058cb4d988---26016090791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87683319b669fc19793332ee59218b39/7131429109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff5cba652295394eb458721a5b09ea2/xibironexadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49a2ab75ce---tamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off0000fbc5.bin)
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off0000fbc5.bin)
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In extracted file (font_05_sfnt_off0001578d.bin)
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=gta+3+pc+setupPDF 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000ea76.bin)
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000ea76.bin)
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000ea76.bin)
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off0000fbc5.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn extracted file (font_04_sfnt_off00014325.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_04_sfnt_off00014325.bin)

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA76 6832 bytes
SHA-256: 40e0ad21b19df3db216fd06b1281b08faf1616a5a4e0e4362360d049e0fe8d6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC5 4612 bytes
SHA-256: 7f267ebb7a8e42b1d704d981a1395a0849858c4c73ce785cb6fc7f78fb323c0e
font_02_sfnt_off00010b74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B74 4180 bytes
SHA-256: 22de0e8ea7f7fccbcde9f4b1000cc8d3420822eaa4afbf6317a66336d5c2edcc
font_03_sfnt_off00011b6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B6C 11520 bytes
SHA-256: dff69d14c588ba189e993ef32bc7d0dd16da8f9bc26f01100b492588f35a1d3b
font_04_sfnt_off00014325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14325 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 52db30b66cfb76898988bc7c6ed152514c301740808ab95bec9c68e49df23550
font_05_sfnt_off0001578d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1578D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e