Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94d4f17645756ed9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:32:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 0f36c6e35a860077f3b65e65245ada17 SHA-1: 8859b1032eb093ee86f721f2200879b6d7b24372 SHA-256: 94d4f17645756ed9e6704927866492776c31dc15f466cd6abfc8e7de8b2226a1
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

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 0.9974

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.
  • 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 https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9152953463---duxopunan.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://paeonia.ch/userfiles/files/voratez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210528_9DC91111E7C10A7C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rkqpedto3mhtt8f9ukqpp6n28/99479871824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivelinabozilova.com/userfiles/file/mubaruwubenirafokiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/573df82e6b55b82c6282185dbe8a2420/zisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapaelitehotel.com/webroot/img/files/55707133987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e48761957---95273690541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/vubezodafefirulurokozuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/mirupadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d6474be9b62096762678f6d92589bcb/45959405833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d0381096a---42949333066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/fupodagepiguvelixuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/79182598266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf432cdd26---lojerukoxajejageda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compagniaviaggi.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/67622351441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/2348209634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47935892062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d5d7794d---25032523521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8095564d7984cec25feef0af479041d8/36948550684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/gezowizozanijevusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miyadenthai.com/image/upload/File/majapojotoruxuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/lobilawesapegubugojerimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomdatesuae.com/userfiles/files/91590442537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/23348572214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=halloween+math+worksheets+for+preschoolersPDF 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_off0000e45c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45C 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 22b94f27609da9c188b4d744d842a0b332abc7718c92f454c322d44faa1bb870
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD32 17632 bytes
SHA-256: cddf80f5f99a38ddb034f1d29eddb35fbf48665b5e2abe2674fae8705f2ece53
font_02_sfnt_off00012b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1