Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 696bf300cce96a8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:49:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 2596b300da013cc27171d1c4a32098a7 SHA-1: 392e29c6fe948ea9424d45c42eeae73e2b0197d4 SHA-256: 696bf300cce96a8d6c0f9bb0f0bd9e9f6ed7038c17da2c6031819e31a61fa9ad
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable domains, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://heyibnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/33896079524.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae51bf2b9be---bipifujisekot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aa0fd4b692aff734f7c928dd7ca56f8/24309587053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/vepajubonijijejasabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pajurioverslas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givitirukanuwejekegibipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74ea9d0ae1---xoxutinubuwisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906efd5f48e---pedogikiresap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607920813e6d3---jemuzaxusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/69846121403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce5390ba87---59820171504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3bv4p2tkh7rn3iogqlefh4ja7/nuwotaxawosefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/vumuzig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608089baaa8b4---soxigetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/sevatomituxavumobibunuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/muzumigalumevafadejisina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6tia8gtfpl7vkpf4kmv7rhke3/85393409761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/10140127456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a027fc42b68---79906212159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe4f87e543---33216861522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/87018966091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9271610c2d---44217265389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f533c5b170912af8420493c89bb7a11c/gufizufupadewasodufesixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waelfawzy.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/53075230136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=other+apps+like+omeglePDF 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_off0000fdf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF7 17252 bytes
SHA-256: c6703ba5c0241d891e1c0df64c40be812df2e7770fe4570d55e1a5e7813f3670
font_01_sfnt_off00012ae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14300 10712 bytes
SHA-256: c8f161c37e7081a9f26f972bf466da04e8f0d02a2b228ec71809b9f6eca34ce1