Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 602ebeb74abbad7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-05-25 06:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: e3dc345c4487974747d8c69ec0243c29 SHA-1: de1ab98bd4761626a8e679c3a8093ad2929bb8fc SHA-256: 602ebeb74abbad7d58ec6fcf450fc204fb48fb04ba3ca9996482eeb9aa37a9d9
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a malicious redirection or phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+lululemon+true+to+size PDF link annotation
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/74564462379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/102a7b224c6018639ca47b75e62fb7be/21021590597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f22d708e22---95787975856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805f3c32619---97557968089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/nelofiwuwowuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ot347dccmpf58vtndqoujvm557/98907382569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f48ebd2a44ac17ea9fca3c15c9f8b2f4/20033673263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2febe7219dd30d8be9ac431528458826/36064967442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sh2s96c9dj2j1l0nq7jm2nrbt6/89291575011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bccc8d2189---tapimosusosakujasifaroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/53776336982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/71842806611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31fd26432afe0a5d849721ce0f65789e/86943501164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c811ef39395d008980c8c0381fb516d1/xotimusujale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e35f228fb53be5d8b9bbcb7aaf88dc05/jijuxagasibidoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/7476545489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE955 4608 bytes
SHA-256: df54e6c97a36730fa737da11e0aa04271d031727130761f5fa64541af33e40c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8ED 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 6872d73f20c3f2ecbf85f492e504a794abc14948e82690ace44f3b2f0ad9a290