Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adcff35c1b54b3ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-27 18:17:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: bf4608df6924f3b188056221ebda41c9 SHA-1: 18e8977becb5ac40bd5beb8ea22f42bfefba6694 SHA-256: adcff35c1b54b3ae284558059e6c43cbab13a20f2aa0adbb703934ba9756856e
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and multiple URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised domains. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute code, likely to facilitate the redirection to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://kurumakaitori-one.com/js/upload/files/nazuwuseziwol.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://excitechem.com/userfiles/file/62355549240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleartunemonitors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bojofukexubasodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/31088964982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/87092558902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasco-ye.com/uploads/file/96511057782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324a8ad0225---biketatojetidubusenone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents/files/figukafazoxefubivevobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138175b377f6---99314996487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614489b245b73---nataseverozagamubob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jayeonrak.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/zuxakepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/dudewasowapadupedotudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yifff.se/userfiles/file/wizunazojide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f56085f9f---49591628453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knoxvilleremembers.com/media/zaxutobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/43476476458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613333149ff07---lixafumagizejumovalutufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podgoricki-klub.me/userfiles/file/72686322945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvinenott.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaxorajuxose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/xumikajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/53314346497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/83429551503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarzminder.com/resimler/files/19229671776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/fijusevawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=d+day+game+hack+downloadPDF 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_off0000b221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB221 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA38 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 447f1d9e5167f6254e002257694f389402a7ea7cb7bf3ad3a2d8970cc65df292
font_02_sfnt_off0000e23d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23D 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 8d86c06d79de9a1787601d6316dbd4ae8b6b9f203a5b196a2983c9423c38e3d8

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