Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a38b10929e81bfd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:51:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b4d1cc00c96843fc3b4aeb8a82888eb7 SHA-1: c75b057fe0258d78d1cdba97e14f506230763996 SHA-256: a38b10929e81bfd05cb9e939d4d8c45b0c8d85dddb7547e8d57852fbd0b09a9f
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple disposable domains, a common tactic for distributing malware. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a method used to evade gateway scanning. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/52203553779.pdf
    • http://dreamwith.gni.kr/ckupload/files/fisujapizoxupukako.pdf
    • http://xaydunghoangthanh.com/img_duhoc/files/pomusiwereb.pdf
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/202198112243254.pdf
    • http://otworz-biuro-podrozy.pl/userfiles/file/belebunozefunubitagi.pdf
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/35973428232.pdf
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/bogogijebulamifa.pdf
    • https://immo-macedo.lu/userfiles/files/sovemufozas.pdf
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31571289338.pdf
    • https://holcom-solar.com/webroot/img/files/30928446434.pdf
    • http://netdepphunu.vn/images/userfiles/file/88009446681.pdf
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/0b84ec48eca8ec2ab540cfb169ae787d.pdf
    • http://sportingfoundation.com/uploads/file/39912855873.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42b4eaaf90d6f9ab5ed7102ec1b4e74a/filaxebaxativesexorugox.pdf
    • https://www.vita-organic.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxaz.pdf
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/58920566714.pdf
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e0f9295a72---3967021050.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7229992f3192f4071ebb6245a98cc178/49216289736.pdf
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/366962570ad4ccacfa7e2f3ee753d4b7/bigiwalijokinajomufajin.pdf
    • http://rw-hse-businessconsulting.de/userfiles/file/korusijowibivoduxot.pdf
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/demedepawuxit.pdf
    • https://studybrilliant.online/app/webroot/img/userfiles/file/90708565444.pdf
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06d1e4efce648d8ebce2c2e6f1e1946b/wixarosa.pdf
    • http://carrasvilla.es/uploads/files/62988678269.pdf
    • https://ontogepszerviz.hu/editor_up/74603368155.pdf
    • http://acevina.com/webroot/img/files/dalobevilotafagitinibu.pdf
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pubesujipuvok.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=zip+opener+apk
    • 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_off0000d785.bin
bec7a95ac616c43656d6204ea687549710f0196baca5aa8666369760cbe184c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD785 9988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000edc0.bin
655a0146b094293dc44f373f2c179217d94cb6417ce6cf70416f239c7ef932fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC0 17560 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b32.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B32 16792 bytes