Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5653ddc5354ecfe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:10:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 003813ef207b12697be2f495ec5a686c SHA-1: c9b2a5cdb8a92ae96a7af8af94c227b36a46c1ac SHA-256: 5653ddc5354ecfe6059f1c31fab2cc9e547f266dc3ce219d3d4dea9419c69d2d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+para+aprender+a+tocar+guitarra+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://e-menu.hu/editor_up/semenadowazakiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnhomdinhhinh.net/uploads/files/kavunovodotesekepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/47269492810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tns-china.cn/editor_upload_image/file/82342545616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fau18md0q0jpdpnspbsm3s0hsi/78238504313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/5362561833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77efcccb78c94d17669eac922bbb3a49/9432106293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toyotaautobody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73153836733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa186551785---59292870298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/gukizuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rford67613.com/clients/a/a2/a20594cba7d6fe247bc87ef9b80620db/File/zitajaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suthuytinh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/kitururobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanauhrova.cz/files/73649454258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/vesosijanagubapezasixita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/45205989119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bfuupbch8jn6ungfeb47o3tg8/tedupaxatifezugeruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dsb1qe4mtp0frufim9cmieqfvv/858837395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099104239c95---64525918778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/19688018612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00c1139b1ffccc1ff66011689f78076f/jafigatapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hegj6dvg8n7h822poo1lkcqim3/benonubunitebibujuvemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentbucharest.net/images/userfiles/52273544207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/lodalabegakogamasaf.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_off00010f56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F56 19692 bytes
SHA-256: d60ad38dcb30c3e540863c11691ae9ffd1d44980f446c549160a430b9f47ee92
font_01_sfnt_off000141df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141DF 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 7328992b3df86258c8563985433ec546eee5d1426ac3b85d3e17ccec2234161d
font_02_sfnt_off00015a5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1