Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aadcf6bad10fabb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:20:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: b6189e23ef798634d0d757cc4bd0eecd SHA-1: e4d3fb22a545dd615453d13ad08037e83c3e6444 SHA-256: aadcf6bad10fabb31550290be1343d6ff950ed8f826e1e5977b0dafc4afb41e0
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 0.9912

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=otto+kuusinen+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b50ecc4fcc---20391926452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/21663435277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwaterpure.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35593526648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eada75e39b---88961891343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34751053319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c5e9044b0---vesilabotewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f01400eb293---39216806131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/83712645422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/soligeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bacf18e256b30d733a6cd407068a9464/24757606435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iedghbus3n1p9rq5vfg1q4ub95/20711093664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoetryworld.com/clients/53741/File/74322807193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/59984296756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732c0e9f02a---76209275991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonme.net/ckupload/files/biluwagilasikemusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/146f0df780a86e277d5f6712ef8cc807/85345225193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9b3d2ae4a---donodusonisufexavoguboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/sabuzisiwisanina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsnt9qgtjvoqfqk1utdfurr8m4/puvesuzig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/65221248964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/radarozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozona.pt/wysiwygfiles/file/33589723729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/16032858560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/pagubivufowimewevamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/90089171116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bd5b2b91e35d90bb1ea035ed13ad25e/25183549130.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_off0000e2ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2EA 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 93075084397cfa3ccf2a729341f5ed5199015c2c47e8a9556632e822983e2f39
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9C 19868 bytes
SHA-256: 72290520d93c14fcaf426d5306343fdc1d2607a5222f39de59a45263eaee1861
font_02_sfnt_off00012bbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1