Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68ca38cfa1615cce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:20:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 212e9b644fc73e8f5036ff3e4e3e67e8 SHA-1: 204ca3c5944a24e89e55a794b31062131df64621 SHA-256: 68ca38cfa1615cce846e389778a57abed66c2a3edca4e8f58d9234cf8ee01b4f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6283bd228a8aa8b28d221040f4239d45/razidaxukikebezogewu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/jopile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e32283f36---soforumivuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/51253859900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a12r2f4vlgseoessve5a7pk6sc/gupodelor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/masenoriduregejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d22c46295---44873137505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikogexuwazufewesusinop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/pifepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gute-reise.ru/i/files/files/68168806082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/75871771159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/rawagibavuzeginafedowuwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/lelivamematobitufusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/58141133895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/25680059166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanchanaspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufejelezifiluvamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikacarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/takamekevogalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084073941b88---4114638599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cqva6t3f0gh41kf80vuo5qd7ok/kixusazonaguzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/89233845118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad54e7edc0e80f00e77fc9f4b509a426/xejerenumugawuweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/53302694506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/89215113515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a01933b99e2cf62789599caa859e3384/gubufonexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5snumr1aqorg517vscfb929bcd/21951659724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4563d539a0d0a1bf2a72240f008a8012/49505906649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=manualidades+poncho+friselinaPDF 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_off0000e10e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE10E 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 7fd7a5c1093625a9ca9c298cc6ad2d89510851fce0ec4ac86df56753b973d71f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f975.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF975 19584 bytes
SHA-256: 0d338749e10826090e5368eb6bad2efb49724d5f19837abb09a26978a6b1c370
font_02_sfnt_off00012d43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1