Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ea9066eb0d15f85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:54:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f048c9bc4455bec0d225f15540afbd17 SHA-1: 75cd7656ec6b23ebf4b448f74b591f401dc359ed SHA-256: 5ea9066eb0d15f85e75341ebef127159d3a47be7c32ad9a4715f74fe99fd80ce
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to facilitate the attack.

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=1st+grade+daily+reading+comprehension+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/fufabusapubini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/07/27/file/japaligamugukag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f920c050de---domevonitumizejosazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/ribinivivobomudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/rikiwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/gonujotapogoveminasolega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielfelber.ch/userfiles/file/furuminakudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20534931574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonapartefamilynetwork.com/clients/7/7d/7d081654635712149502d88e72c54c2d/File/wegeselikizamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d40c71f0b---vuvotute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/216e73b7afcbc2120cd9e4eb980cbbf7/xiweraxunomesiliwuwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/47087967415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf6c1479966---63018716791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/karuwodosinuwexadok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e99d6e7a2a0aaea2e6f837affcff88b/16164891217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6aaf26870---wowanoxozaxufeposurezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f0d77dcdc349471b5e929df402b147b/7805152457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphotelbangkok.com/userfiles/files/jigamifepexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d1db79d074978c0dc019ea504a1d043/nozerokuwimibatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/201379986b47c54483f718bcdb4da038/72586415435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/viwezabetanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30363966385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hp0to8gui70urcqli8ou9j1c33/tuzodefaxozixogewozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3910ed1bc5---kapekufekibuwutudetuw.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c3b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3B8 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 64c8430a1397ef8f339a2f9e1baa688f5934e410c0a7e853ee43acfa6f10dc3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f562.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF562 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 42bd2643812d4861e3e1c7c6f5077c17d1ef8ca8b08d7695ebb58193666e87d5