Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99b43ca3f8f574c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-03 11:51:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 18cc11cba2ee4c87f9504578de5025b6 SHA-1: e6b9a83c90ea99da6baa0ed11ab6dd5254335bd9 SHA-256: 99b43ca3f8f574c2920894a436abd98acb5d5830f7659e06fa1d1b89ff7fd2d4
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to other PDF files hosted on various websites, many of which appear to be compromised. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, potentially used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/nuvafirefokatiduxu.pdf
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab2f97a3c5---lerinemanijarenivuwi.pdf
    • http://granite1962.com/clients/869125/File/paromavudubotekupotaruba.pdf
    • http://mistralizmiryonetim.com/uploads/file/nazomamitidewevumun.pdf
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/rubakutupalisafunuse.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17e7905fcc3db464ac2ec50311d6635c/86072928820.pdf
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/magoladibawasirumumixa.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850dfd548f7---devixe.pdf
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bc3617893---95932737135.pdf
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2657c4768b4bcc1e4db75c8c0f5cffdb/12200068292.pdf
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_B4BC10360F061011.pdf
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/polufu.pdf
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a87b32beb41e03f54953c4127bc734b8/temetesupe.pdf
    • http://venturahigh1967.com/clients/40640/File/98543455233.pdf
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/gogewejeluwalunu.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/79235879262.pdf
    • http://datong-travel.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/20210728201548.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865ccc9c47f---muxadivozipo.pdf
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jobawomuxafetitizuvatugak.pdf
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae45bcac24ec00221144a4f66b06ee04/97496075711.pdf
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/77360826019.pdf
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/palaximobasozujagipa.pdf
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/42218209773.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729e00617c2---fekimedevekonuwonisa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=maddi%27s+fridge+pdf
    • 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_off0000f86a.bin
c1bb5cb8c465c80ea116a80f309e4223891f8607cb1ad644b5c3574b3f2a8dc2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86A 16856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001245e.bin
ed6a206a007ee0bc384321da85e8677c000bc39c03d9f954d2d744c7ba7b71df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245E 10332 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b93.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B93 16792 bytes