Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e15a09354b72fa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4c88b966fb7789c38eecbb7d7ae2d940 SHA-1: 2421a023162ecf27f49511d12df2020ca51f89a3 SHA-256: 9e15a09354b72fa0f64d549dbb99c64af148d18a161fa3206a50cb755b27d44b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs and the ML detection warrant a high confidence assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9499ela053qavmhhhk873u1k89/66336381141.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://onlinetalk.jp/app/webroot/img/fckfiles/file/71470530109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/44796882145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dca57081e---5943812317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pukowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/tixujupuduwivaziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f5225dd931---15212630546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/83869481724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazezegabikewufigib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaytonfa.com/upload/files/lenezevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimalsada.com/pics/file/kitizilitiruxudepus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/59847094325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/userfiles/fichiers/83049694817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/fudaminid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mzch.pl/userfiles/file/54096998008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/93986871057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/kalixije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/72376695540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/9409940004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pscemetery.com/userfiles/file/jifejozexezatiraruwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yasacompany.com/upload/files/xavune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=monochrome+mode+androidPDF 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_off0000cbc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBC9 18952 bytes
SHA-256: 43a8cd93f7f2d7ced5c7ee30a5184de7bfe5294109676d9c35025d0ab0f662f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115CB 10316 bytes
SHA-256: fcb8d8ce4a4c238b59ab0a7fcfac694be9906ea0cd6790fdfc652d5dbba180a7