Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b076996e02b03ec8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:06:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2efa9ca20d5eacdc0ad85f36ffa027da SHA-1: 313b9ed28a1d4da69a2ac06ed74ed0f4f031a89f SHA-256: b076996e02b03ec83eafda5b9049843fb594961887608a1dbe76ae3196d14518
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, including compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination or leverage trusted domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the combination of these factors points to a phishing or malware delivery scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://holland-ex.com/images/blog/file/92145956880.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/biwanovusebawatulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35922103555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/56722213597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/20219602832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/51433060627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f172c50150---nefexumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/torofukesomigepusesim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/75923072364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613293ce3e6cc---lowus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/48932962290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elai.kz/upload/2021/09files/210908022742185846l27ja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptkas.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/jexodelebakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/93876218322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileki.com/imgup/file/javelidaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33e33f99ffc7f23b02cb48f7e3abe8d7/pawomexefugalilozaguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/kufukixejixodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vresponse.net/userfiles/file/44251325516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia-fitness.es/userfiles/file/29022261020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkmate.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_2A333C2929917528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69838377092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpc-serbia.org/js/files/zebujinapinonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///48833534196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=theme+wallpaper+hd+download+for+android+mobilePDF 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_off0000ba79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d28b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD28B 15524 bytes
SHA-256: de97856924f29215e39ceddd6997e4c3ead76316c84a2ba09f99e74c8788dc11
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C8 10684 bytes
SHA-256: e3b547d26ec9265d1b37ceae13323f4754adbec5c2e3363b5d2063416a76581e