Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56ce48b08e2ae2a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-28 13:45:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: d84febda971fdde4b8b4bbf71d7f8ed3 SHA-1: 637b8d13ad6702babdc3682e85c92dfdc448416e SHA-256: 56ce48b08e2ae2a32dc83097a4fd71da9954d0aef5e40266bf3fad6cc3fefa5f
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 http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/fabolewodimejolozow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d350cd4efe291b8222b8a93d3a9ef3d7/45717391082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ab610353e---votidelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210608104421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a584b882828---5985005366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-07-24/images/files/71083627798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798feb7fe17---koluvukezabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/xonol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b746ca0650e---zanoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synersys.fr/contenu/file/kiwogolewewurakutok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/tikawamafojawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d430265704c---jobefunujilerurusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/xalawodajeladukeninawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202106152108015531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609878656c6da---rebekusebopemafalubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b546f13dc87---kuwibulaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b540d53e47e---xojaxepetuzibagepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed043b4eda---53543705488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e84b22211f---fimibexexifawelozibake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/mojurozagitibixoxejuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+type+of+soil+is+best+for+agriculturePDF 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_off000101df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000119f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F6 11000 bytes
SHA-256: dab0a75f80ffb8a90d6c6b54cc91611395b377f89b3f333338394668bcdc2ac5
font_02_sfnt_off00013387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13387 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 32458fb429417de6d4c41ff7febe113a24d4a87996f9d0ebc6dcde0c40ddc8b5