Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a72c9a1300565f1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:30:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a9ee7256f2c952f9712b179f369c2b46 SHA-1: 15395f42994f63fd2a643a3baee0916016098112 SHA-256: a72c9a1300565f1a9277408d654b38f1bf4d15fd337a39cbc573fbe8b0fb2f4a
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' indicate a strong likelihood of these links leading to malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of many external links suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thoptv+app+latest+version+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://samwha.com/upload/userfiles/file/gezuvulupeveteku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linkevicius.com/upload/galery/file/3955018601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210902163054757896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noclegsosnowiec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/zolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e522861e3---gezodanavasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132baa35b987---lapedorisigatitorimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/vatifeminagaxodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bankerz.in/qpic/files/pugefakosidudinudiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-eria.pl/mandarynka/pliki/files/jinofozuvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/nodulosogatadew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80b2b014ef5ebc77e18d021c33f69160/palenikozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungdvm.net/upload/ckfinder/files/kiwazizuzipunizafusobubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/velidalajoronolumujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/16883729189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/885373271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balassalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kaluxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gasatasuzoxapame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613332e265e8b---30730853632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/98086087871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/7196948908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/46602259202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dc2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC2C 18356 bytes
SHA-256: a62e26a38137b82f0ee9570b68aba095629ff9ab1fa445dd475c700f5d1ce123
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD7 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 2f699d78f451cbc91d2bf8d870047cb5333ad2fc086dfe8572f282bafe49dd51
font_02_sfnt_off00012426.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12426 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1