Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 967c1048bb318711…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 21:28:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b141b36b3261bb58e8fa88c878b0e4dc SHA-1: 7a99090e2443418ed60ee07c0372a8507c3f1c99 SHA-256: 967c1048bb31871123d16767d358f9b6fb00c7b854f765520ba0ee4562bdb11c
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The 'SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into believing they are receiving a prize or parcel, a common tactic for advance-fee fraud. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 6

  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://agenziadiviaggiocagliari.it/file/93110932267.pdf
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/31528658921.pdf
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/7262502484.pdf
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ff25ad5ff---64223421573.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1c02ef08bd40f64829067ed5b6855f9/99394207754.pdf
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/25265067770.pdf
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/784529274.pdf
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec52da327e86462863c1f29ca4bf5f88/zotifosukozunajemine.pdf
    • http://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/56879464930.pdf
    • http://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/lekarija.pdf
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c32712311---libubeworaxixabal.pdf
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/14562740309.pdf
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5e5dce140a2ca9d896915e298c695b3/4780358908.pdf
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/ketowijewi.pdf
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0bf6d14ac7a7a7922a4a0a3e8d97dab/98347966407.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ab72b96e2---dojejom.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e1637516e---49136324849.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/035e9a2ef8fd2b06cef2da8bb5f8bc26/40614333244.pdf
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/totekitowopilapipusubumup.pdf
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/funomerujeriweta.pdf
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nceh96m5b2lo3g39utorr69fnt/puwufunozixipamajejefu.pdf
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g11r0ijhgt1qp7gjdpm3qb1gof/12437488290.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mrs+frisby+and+the+rats+of+nimh+questions+and+answers
    • 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_off00017f51.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F51 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00019768.bin
61a1257143bb9ecf7127d2a9a3e7fcbee147d92ac310b1a63dede3d3f4cb1eec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19768 11152 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001b11d.bin
f101795336329da7e7ecfc4b4ee1f6df60fcd9fa009d0e78cb4665310c48fc8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B11D 17364 bytes