Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ca564c4b6321d57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:38:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9c05223bd57d385509cc7f876b998db5 SHA-1: 1a2f1ea48c49df616f55bf9abe2f97de1495c2c6 SHA-256: 8ca564c4b6321d57347b9a5a8119d4cb0ac48112c75d72bb888bcad5df1ec53e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to a variety of domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is part of a link farm designed to direct traffic. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+phones+font PDF link annotation
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/votezadupulijidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paintingwithapassion.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/jebafatus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jkmart.net/FCKFiles/File/77661846475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/255074085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/61920133589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalitelivideoizle.com/resimler/files/sowawanipopipebesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanlacsclub.com/ckupload/files/15331129391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326d41aa3b2---liwubepanudagezejuseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yas-center.ru/userfiles/file/niwaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/bavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/jugimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jkmart.net/FCKFiles/File/89204023694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/31080061422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klubkanine.com/home/klub/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roximifofamuruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shastriratanchatterjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63825353232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/fufamodexezifeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hearing-outlet.com/uploads/files/202109100938491414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58004428985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/manifipupagejonesivuwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d865806638---japotas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juzoridulegeferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wintechindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fonofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b215af81832925a4862c79ca211a8c0/mibonejekurasetimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/6230419635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/76127653672.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_off0000db52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF369 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 8a7f5a8141e762af0d72a333565b8c5e86baa1b5385452bf923674e54de27bcf
font_02_sfnt_off00010ba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA1 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 0e79e9d18857407bdd60e3f3a8d28af22f21bce5d7cd59c7ed11a34689eb9eba