Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab01aea6aba234cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-06-06 11:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: a3ceed121c60d83731aba30fffcda7e5 SHA-1: 81cc97b090ea9e67a368bbe9cd87920cf06c4b81 SHA-256: ab01aea6aba234cfbd68c48782692754e9287220db325c747ddb638939c057f5
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 0.9998

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+bookworms+library+stage+1+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfb1fc19ea5e9c03a007e405cab16d86/87302933089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e604abb52---juvikumezomapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075be2929666---53829489794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc0d6bd530---87941072254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b67f9d4a25e80482eadbcc046a4785b/21392156610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/wiguwofejorufimera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7a02e7e31---manalepatoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4bfb6a177---getaxotesanilivekubazake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5cde3fe2630656a9d787159cde1ed45/30770618827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b294852b872a16e6ea03cb0221c2f47/72250182683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f50fb4dd58---43737625752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92064357210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d31f55f9781f49b1e2768704b752730/dapibujubipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/3771452061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0s9q0ftsfr9ivn5a1b8odt5mri/redimewamabubibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e31b0a3483cdf99c0190f576b5e3a040/70952912601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCC9 5772 bytes
SHA-256: 2a21588800ea72897b814e2495b790c9f99d59672b092e66fee9103d03f54cca
font_01_sfnt_off0000e07c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07C 13512 bytes
SHA-256: d62f0c76d1e8553d2dc2113df541e4371c57a8460594c2de8b31f38c219e4bd7
font_02_sfnt_off00010b53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B53 16416 bytes
SHA-256: 4ad768826b39aa3250d5068462ae15de6f973291b541b4163bc94a6946222431