Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 621b9ba17c55e399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:51:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6304aae42f891a6920d2ddac0f87dce1 SHA-1: 4d91cdcc0337dba4371a35e58deb582a81c7e7ed SHA-256: 621b9ba17c55e39921f6213261a4474d0d1e23bbb99271fecb038ab5071b3179
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure with numerous links is consistent with distributing malicious payloads or manipulating search engine rankings. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern suggests an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f622a55c5cd6275220ff9860b5e8eb/20066177478.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/738d2aac5a161fcc010b405590f1e7a2/63898212929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/gikewitobagof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/larizelafajimukubivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/30486063741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b832a6c715---31373080216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0643bca9e5---maladebozavejamevajofagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banning64reunion.com/clients/a/a7/a71e9339640f4be667ed55590a288245/File/95835697311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89c6d6a6c87decdcf75f323241629f9b/jegipezisukowidejepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87b3463c5e---fitujira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atletika-pardubice.cz/files/file/3680117496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/rimikesovatojesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/68974722017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linker-apps.com/files/72956354199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1oqqfvc7d5mq447upb9k4jubvb/747266607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca8310522c4ba15507512f358720891a/gaditojuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210831124540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/55900710812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/fijulugoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e952bfd6e91f2c28a8275805cf05c13/texasadexumitanebuvakuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f62d0c93e82da2f6af054f687ffe6ad/88610900350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02fa6f3901---welerazatorewugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87bd5a0a8205cd92f686bd534fc0dd34/21627066891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamaskitchenorder.com/uploads/files/68999714777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b436ef447---lefomesexebejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/dusaxefawopobevava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0527141065864d8ec53921bfa9add334/37079949193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=promoting+gender+equality+in+education+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_off0000db52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF364 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 431b68c4498ef23bc49a6ebb4a055c03f65f295e6739706d2b50989b099409cc
font_02_sfnt_off00011f9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F9B 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 848271810f894a57aafe2dd68aeda21b576641a0a03bc5c1c0f9e84a9d9e4d00