Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7030d28eabbda39c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 14:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d73b49386b93451946c9b55d67e13d47 SHA-1: 3143d448a602c297200ad40fec17cd096e6c094b SHA-256: 7030d28eabbda39c5c863ba4875950e83c71ee4909c1fdda3fb608fb3d82fd85
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. This suggests a tactic to artificially inflate search engine rankings or to distribute malicious documents. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple links to potentially compromised sites supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://yngc.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/logesokiwotimiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/dudovenujanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ff0340b87---46627023468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6lve2po1l55cmj2g4e1qi27k5/88919999377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fs7n740osg34o97qu8tqs350he/81065873820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6debc6b8427f9e61ad996ce5abacd5ac/10861981080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maschimaurizio.it/userfiles/files/7728405309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b2c4ede10---1351966947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanresearch.com/userfiles/files/givubamuwoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785bfa0366b---fodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/lavanokepidajoredola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e944676ab7---ririnosokaxidakajiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7b65a4854---baxovuxori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf07704065---fofejomevawuvubadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents//files/mivuxise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfc179653d0---padedidisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/varogesodexununibuxabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cc2623b03---2646982111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/63358893710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vga68pqgadber4h4s6tamvvq70/68535606162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773418c3edc---mezajixetub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71ascieu4rhb2e6hu8c99486a4/lixogoserexaxozezewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/userfiles/files/lexeduziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celiapopememorial.com/clients/4/45/45605e685ba8a3b32f56966823665796/File/wibumodilakikezegozarugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=role+of+education+in+national+development+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_off0000f02f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02F 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 7a360670ac6fc03268560e074d8e59561e33d2c82ff06984e7b2b097cf2dbb5d
font_01_sfnt_off000108ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108CA 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 6b0ed688e02eef7ee8b6d1585e6d4999930fef67771c2b30eabb5b6891587b97
font_02_sfnt_off00013508.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13508 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1