Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f6c8f56a5220ab2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:38:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 525e1ba4a0866604a8ffbdbe32c8a16b SHA-1: b87ea60a44b0d838289506d66a29591fe2eb94ce SHA-256: 6f6c8f56a5220ab2aa9ebe98ddfbe5174f319a8b16cb4309e98cf3269adceb78
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a high number of links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or appear to be disposable. This suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or a malware download server. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/18337083346.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://autokolcsonzoszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/veneforelituder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/36763442053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariopisillibertozzi.eu/userfiles/files/vediniwigonibakowakojeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c66798a26---xigejapusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417075702ae---63513843451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351990f41a6---jabonurunanusijolexazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://it-remarketing.pl/app/webroot/media/files/wifurulasegodusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161362af4d839e---vusumifokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/35002213241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/xaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/selumoxuginekemerofego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/mudumiwomujifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613686020ee99---wagemoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/45152668952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140139d646e0---11715642404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee5cd5724b37b73cd4cedd34e68d5cb/54216951944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d054a27f2e8d5fd5b83fa93a1318ad7f/5789270650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/kepiwukokezesepusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dipulilusil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421e6034de3---tipilisiwiraveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activsport.ro/userfiles/file/8390884847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/99424369254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijestr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4628279323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=gta+san+andreas+rocketman+cheat+androidPDF 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_off0000deb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB4 23864 bytes
SHA-256: 01a12f2b55489f70297b93c4a31d079b45ace93290e1b460c9f5c041c9acc3c6
font_01_sfnt_off00011b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13346 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 6980059bd9cc611e2d2401e1f2e4ad4a7eb17964ddb832213d9270c1d013598f