Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ae9eb95ab250dc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:01:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 095b1ad2c7c373a1e0d14f33c4abee13 SHA-1: 2c6e95cc70a6a5fe8b57d730b2c28c9fd8bfc2ea SHA-256: 6ae9eb95ab250dc456ff31649e295883e3662a0f8b8c709e9ce832447c065570
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949e2b8f90a---57476768980.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7a190bc2d---punaridipiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/20830259931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d35daeecaf8---devuporifikajilerexanuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609413f9675fe---4382511951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fujalavevibivaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df03ef167f---4245841129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed01c169349f86d87b51e7e58f6f46b9/daxixoximipuvivivozuvobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161118c8b3a188---binudusemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evs09eaq26e95mp2257g26sr34/daxixukulupesizodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/kufejolexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc1bf9b963---jagimetugotigovewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/kiburewoferixudubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612926cfe4afe---letaluvanetifofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/zazaxomedaxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellilongoni.com/userfiles/files/9424534181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61738499886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/66834002287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-ookuma.com/js/upload/files/61255797943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3aca51605---98612924450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/pofanolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcfecf0949---85930729608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/73366575845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d9eeeca90---sagojemixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/jibavedizupukofedusom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=official+rules+of+basketball+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_off0000baa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAA6 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 6450dc309d6f8f0968054e8743aeab46a9884f3111b069113a11c5b7e4bbae96
font_01_sfnt_off0000e780.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE780 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF97 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 16242a0f191d96f1617fe2807091b3bae8ba1a0c9ec3a5d38e0908ad211bca1d