Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5693cadc129301c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.4 KB Created: 2021-06-11 05:11:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: c1aae0ba67c83c1d2d32bb92d5f62d22 SHA-1: 42c5411995d7b9437ce5046c7b0956106b4c450d SHA-256: 5693cadc129301c22e4ae6dd5bdfc3c62588d0b5191ae84656f2d553e5ebcc33
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 0.9997

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=managerial+accounting+garrison+13th+edition PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bmc0fvd8k87cfqrg87osmidr2/nojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb4872eab0---dejedoduxubexawixeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66283542435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab35d67705458457261bec71930fcee8/6319034213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claphamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/fedubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/32778892475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b9cdcd80fe1899fcb8e2edf9515484/14845940597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3glqli90v48f2mokelgdsi7c1/petataxevawoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a6b1bf163---fozadilubigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/zudowagesese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d22922b4bd---33532905918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgu6uuq2kqo91sj4ngb5sat1ok/fuviturobekiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f55357aa0c---23265721315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf971879049---20761137687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c87ec1729e---53202539583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off000149bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149BB 2368 bytes
SHA-256: 04041909634acb344595fd2ebd1c961bbec4e72a8cef8dfe75d013f3552439d1
font_01_sfnt_off0001543d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1543D 5424 bytes
SHA-256: d1489724e97bc78614a0838fb9fc7dad94d81b83e227798155baf95b1275189f
font_02_sfnt_off000166ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166AE 11692 bytes
SHA-256: 79dbd9eb87a7400795b41f78f5d515cbddb429cadc59b1321ccb07f092f5564f