Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad648e9743f0eec9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-25 23:08:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 3e3bb51f49b31f381b347ce2b65ef441 SHA-1: 1d251d80c86cccf1b5381ba3542edc436ea049cf SHA-256: ad648e9743f0eec9bf27f9300cd3d68c6e1835f065f4dc27fe63b4cb2e0236d9
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 0.9984

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hypersecretion+of+growth+hormone+during+childhood PDF link annotation
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/49314679516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/60898064881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/kisuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/xoxafozerixufefofutomewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/bowamulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/nasubodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/262049375130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/61772705039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/26028567351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bede4f893---supisiwafuvetalitefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161207d6a4afb6---70688612217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b343c7fd3---goxetabozujewesijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiuman-hk.com/images/file/jipadopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/sutasanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/92087694750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8ruu41r7quljcceqrm4q4tok0/gewulafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc87a79905---digabowuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81438681249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/rekomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a346be2173---58219872529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923d016a384---maxenemaximidivekozuxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/jutakagili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/58532800240.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_off0000e7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A1 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 0f2efbf6123f805656b5ca279d8d0d717241daed67d86b39b7832228990c7577
font_01_sfnt_off000112dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012af4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF4 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 1bdc9ecf15f7d9f97e940df10537c0b92ce95c36046d314f2874beb012f708a4