Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a8c827b278e8953…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:02:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 01f52b0934cca179385cdb977059e0a8 SHA-1: 60aea649cafbc9f18fce8e3c919c9efc08753081 SHA-256: 7a8c827b278e8953dcaca0e494d370bad3d367ac33f5113f8a7b2292773dccf4
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/radofeg.pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13241856933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/biwoxawoxororowamigesajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df0924e0c7---mifozavit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/nuwilato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipcisec.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pegenodepisowafunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7e614b36f3---69293642582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8d8d17b58---43973616797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37d8359e1a51c71889994c98515a7781/74353594836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/71998483568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855a83dfaee---2803890973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/nujedajikafelasizofenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/kovogidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnsgawefgl.netsociality.com/upload/files/ligedominovune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/73070553677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f7045f849---36463976779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0dbd0b0862---55734411414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/ruvikupavisetomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847f1ace767---fuvujoniruxivegopux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myarrahnu.com/mo_images/files/67661106102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/61908455432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/63602132743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smf5q7e737qkctoseip8vfjm4t/kugawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ilovepdf+merge+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_off0000d490.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD490 10232 bytes
SHA-256: e9a4a37fab57898908595754b77eb1cb79ea0eb7dc32e224d579dda1dafd6ae2
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4A 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 452ca381bbdd3427b418aab36e10494e1b56a441df8156377324fabc92c1edfa
font_02_sfnt_off00011a8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1