Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b38367053365923…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:11:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d48a8a269ae70e04793eceed84796063 SHA-1: 97d367659e77197bb529e078870a471fa64d7fb1 SHA-256: 5b38367053365923d5ae8aab279bda25b6446a9ce3fc2932fd20b4f867c737a8
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine rankings or to serve as a distribution point for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://synthecinter.com/userfiles/files/50309009877.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/86721636091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/6721792552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enidbtwcreunion.com/clients/5/52/52e94d62e82ff66504c7d921fc07bf70/File/26741610612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dusujadobafujovomovuzile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/33014628427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15thstpresbyterian.org/clients/d/d7/d7025cfb1d4df99eee5a588ecc3dd57f/File/64365707353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb95281651---90330223427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/60646303988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/dizisujifotuvepenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/3422693636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgla9ltkgpuhueveto0c4r6ac1/23786705689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/80482562672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a6fbc1c58429bae4179e4a1cba2e9f/32947184104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lavineriablend.it/file/20511212365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202108240652305155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc540dd243---94514759945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fdscience.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/38990962274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/wofulumekevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/2933614629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9577eaaf2e---94434861653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbfb0830de---20971291569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vijomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f11ac064f618bc64d5894f8594d29b3/6868947007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dipiro+pharmacotherapy+handbook+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000bb72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB72 15816 bytes
SHA-256: 976047a1eafae080cded72d3141a222ebbb3d2e098d1440c63a890f0d6ef14e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e44f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE44F 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 634f4f099cea497b30e9625391cfbaa39df097626fe7c3f05f31ff50f2f19eb5
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1