Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75d6be2b6eee620a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-10-02 18:50:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fde7f6f26e4f9f8f38c96fceb4506dab SHA-1: 54ac05a74b237f846e8c74af3327ec68fc4c0794 SHA-256: 75d6be2b6eee620aa7571722115a46c0b417b7342b705378ec2425d75ae41703
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, directing users to other PDFs. This pattern is commonly used for phishing or to host further stages of malware. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple compromised domains supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cell+the+unit+of+life+short+notes+for+neet PDF link annotation
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136cffa1e5a2---9475000416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31385b6bb8012fc3f271cc698d74c4bc/kotumepevivinirafevati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafiganob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/buwaribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/62475519867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/26072209046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/boxekunagorabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents/files/95148624795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ossokahve.com/upload/file/jukewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86843423657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/13984530411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariondhuique-mayer.com/data/file/64197274412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pandoraecza.com/genelresimler/file/nekubako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satcomlink.com/userData/board/file/zubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/merubagubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614326bbc8a7a---gedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f6ccbcb39---rabatukeninuwewanati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mathahospital.org/userfiles/file/lexusofizizisojagimujoket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebus.cn/up_file/file/74244477440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70005c91694ea8a4ba4a30a5b3b55f1f/74199979941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasson.vip/images/editor/files/89577424535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/zawomimilefigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euchebnici.com/img/file/59315598839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27056608645.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b1bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D1 15680 bytes
SHA-256: 38436b59c2fdcb28057f2e2271d1a07bf9f8f0c4382f1f9a6563fd677ab0e717
font_02_sfnt_off0000f154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF154 10280 bytes
SHA-256: dbddb02e51a0daba4e96c827b0e51782c42925d9a5e77da03745d03906b16ed1