Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eb60285b1155898…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-08-12 00:28:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 78933db74f7a439209fd056c86303b51 SHA-1: 5d6b6116f429deb90e8caaa07f18806c32417d65 SHA-256: 9eb60285b11558989bc2d8b2fb114f6f28fc116d45e0f6cdf08afb424dd670db
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised websites hosting other PDF files. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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 http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d05344e555a---lofokip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vinhhangvien.com/upload/files/67998148986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb094dab173fb280e23baae82ac0c7d2/39373700358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dycelife.com/userfiles/file/20219475411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbsrh1t4opr9l6tbc7krr53u64/nujigapekixojol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b6bc8b1d8---62430875462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/4943534598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/dolomomodonezabuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anjilh.com/uploadfile/file///2021050222200642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92517541884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/1468537246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18f108c7b25c10936c409fbab0493884/ditolutoxagudaxidewusesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d4e58c91c2760ab2d8b69445d432662/41263886246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f84ca430d5c---96979477767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/subozinotaxevawerutudufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a706399816cb45cfec7d6215bb8b242/tizaxelopunedemubumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1bqo3n09oj2phl27kadfndap2/84142423394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0fbe5c6cd---tafonoloputasuwuxakeduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bb260d8b23---45406959427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/xowukokerezokepas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210622004717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/muwuxebozukebari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2183134c3afb935575fa5e515288bbaf/manibesevusidekosozaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161051d00601db---xobigexuxupuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/kozugajegejogomeveloko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmcaana.com/clients/29274/File/67486607563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/2942230643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=did+you+hear+about...+math+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000d74a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD74A 15544 bytes
SHA-256: 2f7e11cea20a526841ea8c867963fe7247ecb084ee46fad6967bf8ca2b646582
font_01_sfnt_off0000fee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116FF 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 1b35962be9b89b4426fab39f79e671f8aeacea32cd12259066680cc9353a266c