Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67f3e040e8ca4605…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-15 23:19:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 902c9eaaf95ebb449303bedbe0c74c78 SHA-1: 6313b8e653ab9f77c578f84f62d9439128684261 SHA-256: 67f3e040e8ca46051c7cdc90fabf7e1fa90601c04e719b45aad8aea7fc78cb31
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. It also features a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure points towards a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a417a7cbea8---75136440901.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kiddeefire.com/media/userfiles/files/76099291162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f940ca29c1---dudateniwoxagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/1903214393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/78229808071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kofadolumutubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/tokewajikuwopivobow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uelzecht.lu/userfiles/files/83074335763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1be73ab13be6b0a9399eec8593d5452c/jiralid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b66f9dc711---pexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40519457926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97bcabfb56a4d5bfc7770b298c34f62b/84770157461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca952d6fa0---4043970197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850a7bd2fbc---33980205951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf323164896---48134673092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4h5ao40bmlnmor0msgep1gbsl1/redukenadajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawtutors.co.uk/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/40848695677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/xifogamubebinabojedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d44582cead743000307f00abfd9b88b/90205362576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/tikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=weed+firm+2+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000f6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EDE 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 0b5e7c3038a34542a8ab747cc7c94d9cb0afd7f2fd24234509326586c904ef08
font_02_sfnt_off0001275a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275A 17268 bytes
SHA-256: ea168b002324b8ee0c30d13b135d6d04f4da4e17a1d02f85fb3337e1f5587c92