Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f0c96a6b8ec5ea4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.3 KB Created: 2021-07-14 09:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 347b224a91b1fcb908a32c4b558b069d SHA-1: 06c90f3fe06a0d0733cbf4be72a68a286d7f7f7f SHA-256: 6f0c96a6b8ec5ea4c56c96b4006dc69920236bcf08e1a4d54178e2b53f43b97b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and multiple heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of directing users to potentially malicious content. The document's structure and numerous external links suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9682

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://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/70337140088.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/43414366627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974067ed71c---favukulizejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adbf3d6e2ac---vemalufoteloxabesekari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/moxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef59b1e86e---geker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/561a1ce2fda003559b30d81f1ffc0091/niluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7083124672---12652568239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a667db4c080e6d5b60c42b05c98fed1f/8922741194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eb3847bb116a62984d3ccad1883ed82/dalosiwimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/pelujemugapubexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc96d6f497---1865686572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/zatoxafuvebuvuxawoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/92909409266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eeb37b8e63---78282524211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanarotalk.com/userfiles/file///38915489152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d40ca9679---zakipurolisifoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8af37278f0---66847874941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuoredicane.it/userfiles/files/69452685495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79cbe9dddd---xogevufiwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrasvilla.es/uploads/files/40499960087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d18b09cfd---95967088711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e07e7e2ec---toziwapoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/89229528026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ik14j9m43ah3moe73jrpa4sv6/lotugaxilemamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=clusters+and+superclustersPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/ramuzumonizigotovowapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010f88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F88 18876 bytes
SHA-256: 37b35ca32ba7e3f9d81eacdd1bcc832daa24fb4f15baf2e73f58625ddb79761e
font_01_sfnt_off00014153.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14153 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001596a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1596A 10428 bytes
SHA-256: f419dcb608ce74724fc99b47132ed972ffe28b2c6af2664fdf8b550f393eb776
font_03_sfnt_off00017133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17133 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 338cc954a946a7fbf70b29c55d5e66db99b2ef151e94d540d22e7b387f44db23