Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9bb46cecb1d751f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:13:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3f0d0ae1660bd112522ac8a0fe379020 SHA-1: c0f69384c028939908bc3b91ab1d477ed0519fec SHA-256: a9bb46cecb1d751fdd2f79e4ad0d54952f26f5bdacc29dc98761a10059caaeef
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various PDF documents hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload directories suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/kawawugapoguxoladewitama.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/51227809069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/35460011684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d8f415bc8---75270814393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fcb1be845---40507371640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb30916fb09---83987963397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c6ff0a75f---55577436145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/munejavamanudodagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0i2li0hl5ie4b0g5mkshj1ibh/tozefagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jo8b52u6s671pfpq425rg07v0j/88993402812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dosesedesebaxurawabalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95c35d9717---60912346862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076415307281---74804691187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gipiposewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c98489de3---21243390796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/40915736633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202106file/2021061515583570554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9106ade3e89e135ca8642dcf99fb1258/noguseruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a011ca95ee9---80774440719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081407858f0e---16832327090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872c38e8f6b---doturev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87289353270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210504105804862171781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=god+is+ultimately+in+controlPDF 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_off0000f200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF200 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A12 17836 bytes
SHA-256: d78a617f4b47296cad948ab96a5e6c85cd4a4be364c07ad8ebf2c942820ae4a9
font_02_sfnt_off00013796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13796 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 221425294a61a72ad4b49c211c054c3e2512067870f6754a6970d6013d317047