Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6952cfe286a976a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 43b15b640f46f674fdeaf9a8e74ed6dd SHA-1: 56544735e0cc162bfbf3cfcb2ae50a21e2d9e361 SHA-256: 6952cfe286a976a6e7c452c034de6f423d46a886ec5b875ebc5d4966c6de7cd7
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm, likely to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content, rather than containing an active exploit within the PDF itself.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://podimercrm.com/img/files/tamememif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136eb9513b82---muwikosogibuselupaxuxusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okudshava.ru/userfiles/file/tiwamojovofemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161456622c6773---lamopejatijine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/xaviradaxesimomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernardthevenet.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bezogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxagproducts.com/upload/browse/file/2881394285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjchenxing.com/filespath/files/20210916223521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://votava2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pogeboxuwufisubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/zipenusefexape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/runejibefawapetogegamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/pidezaruwulukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144090e933c6---fajozabawula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jlgardner.org/home/jlg/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7151060209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27467873770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370bc74b238---1720237999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs724.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/gosili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133126f123a5---78309462692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/98451864375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kenifujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virker-ikke.dk/files/gejakiledukiletivuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/31091717192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slkuang.com/v15/Upload/file/202199433291559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/nixufimedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139600261da8---76496781794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ppsspp+roms+highly+compressedPDF 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_off0000b507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB507 14072 bytes
SHA-256: fe09f9258a44b6f436b5469cfe61def2351b20040d71160c4184fcefd2e498d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7ED 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 995dd654f4d2f88e1a49e1f63d3615aa349416e4440084325e36da5a0971ef91
font_02_sfnt_off0000f051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF051 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1