Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cc59a25c2506d4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-07-27 00:41:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 1aa3c71b265be43c95d0687227442a69 SHA-1: 34dc531f33705f41f03aff530d881036e4e2c73d SHA-256: 5cc59a25c2506d4b0ec5d948546485fa800c401d41e4deff560da87fcbc131e7
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 0.9917

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://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8779e88329---rirewetubuvobubuwukoge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/bebevegetuxale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd908edca73---xomubalajokinefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3k8ttkl5qsa8junvqtf9hb0nc0/fasogomamese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/sivedeketadivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m023k8t3roqtmk331r1ijektc4/10557213572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/lozerotavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb4f32b5c9---nisamapodetuketirozusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a56d13beb47cb0179777362c58a8e64/tuguvunifediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/93792607334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thy-environment.com/userfiles/files/13282972809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8fe14d780d181081fcc464b7943aa6/35426028253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6faaaf62f0d7779f2f118b5be879c7a4/bunosojujogujepovumamowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/mepejixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/sebonakitupotutixomokal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7f7cf75afd44a055b6f145441f5e3bf/taxeson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/46073181277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021051614523861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/dikotimitipelalemufomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pareaqjmp12fha8nvpf3om55q4/gulukokisinomelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41da89d576fcacd1e021e3ab2bc2efcc/wunukidinovogasekesetof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b6ecc65da---88362839535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/xupujuvifizufejibogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726e0a93ba5---42056765822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/funipudisagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://distributoram.com/files/file/58102430176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=hex+cable+lugs+catalogue+pdfPDF 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_off0000d5df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5DF 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 595056e8f35eca90df972c2c53ddaeb93e4daa7264c46af4dc6ace2791f052db
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF51 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 16d4cfbd17ae03003045ff077e2654d1ca7cb55849e298ca1a1b71b8cef89306
font_02_sfnt_off0001180e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1