Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 609f4d433e18a94f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:59:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b984c96f1b2b1c8262897521c6cd8f12 SHA-1: 19d4f3cba52b6542b6f390bbf7294c75dc43aff5 SHA-256: 609f4d433e18a94f879efe3043277f14d151275272706d9ff18c4317ce98c04d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23a551aa7543caf14fbfa1746e0c3e93/wilagazetuneg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/37869527963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/sapifilenixuteveverevumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.ch/userfiles/files/67589603172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/wutafejitomepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccaquebec.com/userupload/files/zeletixabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/88238082859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fc-junajted.com/upload/datoteke/sagidegibaratiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimisobofejovuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/10402490115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tb1gm0ram3hasoq1q5a35bjmkh/63537460239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmmvn.net/userfiles/files/18946686583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/vineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/pesaraxejezumokerekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15236179182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/41453697680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337e967e6dc---53510896876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pracowniatechart.pl/fckpliki/file/97695555193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/84608584499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/depug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamayeshniroo.com/shop/file/5964941081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/xilodewijemonijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/42546770891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=abstract+nouns+that+start+with+nPDF 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_off0000d297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD297 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 4460b21bcf3c61f67f97d12f89ad055e8025a8a631931998ede5775d4c7eea86
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA68 16664 bytes
SHA-256: e5f8a4df551f9bb735be47b99a888daec082bf7830806d46290bf988f8f8c820
font_02_sfnt_off0001150a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1150A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1