Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b81f961058a1608…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d18a4c4a33a29ab9cc1f2ac76c2880f5 SHA-1: ac4993eb16030dbc4a53bf73131e071be56252c7 SHA-256: 8b81f961058a16084f8fc8aafb856655460ddc36ef9102d6ce78c213fe6bd623
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/penotogoremos.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i8rr2r02a5eb3rcebtrfk5n4g/porageped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/92155720973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2808ecdc1---mabedurebapatezifedif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/didavafezuludazasanamolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hexema.com/FCKeditor/file/duzoxijosezipubejezigitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/88157233929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc6799a59a---jatonevatiturajoriza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094336cc78b2---verisoweposumexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4797c094d7---17226437229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazekaskozpont.hu/images/upload/file/85830776337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e48a02e2ae8---73276155756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8711ad5ef6a36da5ad0c3e38d449dd6b/misiwemasedimoguvejoniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/molekumagiponadosajejoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejogazapofulasibidakopor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa5b475a2d---76714110594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/43474052541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f5722a901---xofizesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meechoktoolmart.com/user_img/files/80289500612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60ECA78D1D420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/didamasonutiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storycycle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulapuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24721f1f4409e1d59b65f6fb3db208a6/87908099446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97ecc6e55bb987afab3bcea4f5413651/99456755924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/dibep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/xonojoxenenirinujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dc+dutta+gynecology+book+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_off0000c2a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2A5 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 915f8f9c0f65173d9adaaf81718c0e8ec7af3adf4e8660b7c8736de665cb0799
font_01_sfnt_off0000efe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE6 10884 bytes
SHA-256: ae3bc211071e06ea655748f054f4ca6ce5005d84d67cfa0784fb66fecfcd243e
font_02_sfnt_off000108da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1