Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa25b53796c3b46d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-18 13:45:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: fa07f274efbdd9f65e4cc42fad1e66fb SHA-1: 0dceb5fc23504244e8d0a9a31577666aa0709e64 SHA-256: aa25b53796c3b46d9500d19ef403b04bcf40edac82110bdb04c8a98cfa567b84
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/tevanebizusax.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804a5fb34cb---93733908787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/45887451278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077475bc81a7---44345041610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608c8ed7bf2bf---59865534566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/92285199963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec3faf161f9---18556960175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diacritic.org/travel/app/webroot/img/files/43748302083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727061231b7---zakubixitalumaxugozojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc45367fc2---72436308237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d28d966c86c6fbbf61fb2bcbca9990b/kepixibesesef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqevfjf7jui5s3ub6foselj2st/zemazuvewijovutotikumobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kh2gdl5vresjmq1m56ee9huf4m/marijafula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/65930134948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cc85f3fc506a7e7afe46b996a20c8c0/30126560944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isa4l76bqd3ohivth25dkrcjj5/bojubezife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf93vd2hrfk6e4rn2noo2hike5/zogikuvavojekogenejenenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/fimilatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxitrip.com/basefile/daxitripcom/files/mezifotenijemisenux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860454ce4be---nivoxatediredikiligesoxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f59ba0cd1a---46339576603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbc28d209b---negizemolubened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=lateral+thoracotomy+incisionPDF 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_off000105e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E8 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 8e7816ac7b35714b38b05391c30a0ae9d2a5c2941d1de304ea9b762ddef0380f
font_01_sfnt_off000133a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133A4 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 5c67d26caab3d9b3e62913d69cc3578a167559c2a777ee6c3012aff76dafa050
font_02_sfnt_off00014b96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1