Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa41e5337183db99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-06-16 03:04:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 938212c9821d4d975e78a366bebd8120 SHA-1: dc9d52cdddf0497725619073ea4877383b628b7d SHA-256: aa41e5337183db9921c8bb0f73bcd24ceaae42a5ef6be828c3d60e003b29bff0
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9994

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aplikasi+winrar+64+bit PDF link annotation
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b88e8b5cb---67296209137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/36256226312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07c64a21740db81093650f31035109e2/worekuzumibixuvekugerabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d8e96088e---66976427989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrsinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/97803897427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mc9ebel6inc9l96uqk7ca7lp4/jenofila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838a484c3e2---xirepirawuvuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/53424422397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3t5mn2a33np2tdeqjk4ri8tjq/zaraxuwosegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e712105ba6---72842509446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8b574a3cc---40414201636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bcd90025a---vunewowedegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/jofumitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/27100768629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/bajaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083422ef3164---zirutetesokenodijapesume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/padal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97c7743102---13044055856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e032e0678---bikegezibemanezarowuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10018 4932 bytes
SHA-256: 8df68a8357834663c521977224035c1ebd09f168965d267325e96aaa028e54fb
font_01_sfnt_off00011160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11160 4900 bytes
SHA-256: c744d2945e243172c948d56e32f0cba7feae76f192545bcaa56dbd4430dd61f1
font_02_sfnt_off00012208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12208 21576 bytes
SHA-256: a4b3c7e60a9e70cbd9416b5c09fa611920b749a305c944011615054382dc444a
font_03_sfnt_off00015869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15869 16696 bytes
SHA-256: 38a1d7999ee8e71c8f1d12afdda963f91b8aabb09dacb5aa8bd666d1e467e71d
font_04_sfnt_off00016fa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FA0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c