Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cf339c261241065…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:04:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 709dcd710acbda7f6f6bb2aeb634cbe1 SHA-1: 6fbc55948b8d8e447be87d8203b66d437aab0e1c SHA-256: 5cf339c261241065fc1ff5f693a707347d57d1a667e5e3ac2fa8b731ad8133c7
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to direct users to external content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and heuristics identified links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme.

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://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/42350088859.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142ddd102888---kepovim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://attackworkoutprogram.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wakogopafukunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumsevens.com/images/file/fudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.com/filespath/files/20210909190428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/tulibinijofolatisika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budka39.ru/files/xadabogabafofaxifox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/galurikibefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/rovamafojituvorojepagema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledspectrumthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugulojurafupujamusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386d879537f---dotokamujuwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbautotech.com/board/datafiles/imagefile/foxugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ruuvp7hq6qqjovqc5sprpkl4t/92083865591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjccgy.com/userfiles/file/bupapisixilujokubatiwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/57202145341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semot.com/Store/userfiles/file/49688782595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejuriste.ru/files/file/banojudimuvigumiwimeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastcredit.ge/userfiles/file/95415778276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed477ab90d---91044724694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honeycontacts.com/uploades/userfiles/file/67653716674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetrafluoro.com/upload/files/85490582604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=english+file+upper+intermediate+book+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_off0000b6b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6B0 15536 bytes
SHA-256: 8d3712ffcc313589f151b9ea6dbd7bcb520e60d17e3bb0053c052c8f36522d3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000de9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9A 11260 bytes
SHA-256: d10f95343a9ed470be21a4a839eb88aa09934f020d7062765654b80a9c916f2e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f85f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1