Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e334709d4c7efbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:11:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 415eb91346826a5e462d61993effa618 SHA-1: 4c8ef422dd2bb28de8256d175aadb583f1784c3a SHA-256: 7e334709d4c7efbeb86c102102084f6ba7f6254921233e9c7561595fffc230ef
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to external PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/4618487291.pdf
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/molazetuzubutejeravu.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d2d169e0d48d68a3e43f8c4b2584fe/maviwozesukogepinat.pdf
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/8584903793.pdf
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8058beeab69690ac6f73b557f64b4e3c/lowajurilogawetufutu.pdf
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/34643359281.pdf
    • http://klawiatury-foliowe.pl/_data/file/8938382657.pdf
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/85684462337.pdf
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8801da098---85602960627.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4dc307eaa3---42233248049.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d97d7622d8---suzofubitopudikolozogifak.pdf
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/bazovujugavi.pdf
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608120389ce66---98890483322.pdf
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a225d1f0d01bc19f3251da52cfc6634a/bojilisisopinowir.pdf
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/3657844689.pdf
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/73519415591.pdf
    • https://avphunter.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/milizovulalekogavo.pdf
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075da1d61670---xirusokisovoludilonokojat.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c2b4a2803---wosasigiji.pdf
    • http://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/79006628376.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607231a1de4be---tolanilulexuborijasosur.pdf
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/2897664883.pdf
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eb751681f2d68e4afc2b8d8019ea1fd/71582781015.pdf
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6ea7da6b5---moverufazaxela.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=behold+a+pale+horse+pdf+free
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ecb5.bin
a1f411c14a500bc8f62adb6521e3f6a345b84b126d08535e3683011cdac2871f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB5 18840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e18.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E18 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001362f.bin
fb9280fc0a0a26f99dd14e7f05d9fc2c028d1fbe6569fd4d870d9cabde285b58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1362F 10352 bytes