Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a0970bca5c8db88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:08:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 468eb2036d98d133deb21ed85251e050 SHA-1: 0b22462b00475c90a40b5801da896b4791ac615b SHA-256: 7a0970bca5c8db884fd86ba5eabf02a72a44966e5c3518e0cd8cccf5f4c76162
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supporting the attack pattern of luring users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410a7e9556d---loxowubolumitikugunosamiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614781ca84b65---jofanajesobalidijiwano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3a2c98319---28048192071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74782206767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/84969392402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suthuytinh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/nudotijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/takukesodajujojaruwoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce50bd1a4d---jazofaxipesem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/20819672280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpstart.mobi/userfiles/file/10661802947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wevat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stichtingech.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/663531804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investgeorgia.ge/userfiles/file/94479561676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/43470204039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/linobufuregixusiveligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/43098812030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e5tbr.alruaa.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/48157578205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionasset.net/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210910144909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eldmsh1.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sevisirikag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/41997447673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/faxuvupugosogojiteled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=supersonic+warriors+apkPDF 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_off0000b4cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4CB 17864 bytes
SHA-256: 0438fb15731dae3630126246af17eab0a13a425755c1565d7bc595580296a8eb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE334 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 4bdaae4bfbb9dca1f194324ee6b522b9c90f06053239139cea10406d47077e4a
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1