Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b296334bcf366f2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.4 KB Created: 2021-07-24 08:48:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 515bec3cd2de2f0b94ad14ed60223fe9 SHA-1: a3462a7c68d077111d6e9909f8cbe2577100cf46 SHA-256: b296334bcf366f2f52836bb521e0a2d9f5204b59403165453ed95c96b14fc0ad
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF document that functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains. Several heuristics indicate that these links are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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 http://richiefamilyreunion.com/clients/7/7d/7d03816b951c94fc7c065ced7c7ccdcd/File/ladatexikimewidixumunizux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/15587326578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/lokesuluwejes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/3955154957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fddd6da42---17465796466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajndoktor.cz/images/file/files/7490240024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc30c01b3b---jizopibajabixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livstyle.ro/home/livstyle/public_html/uploads/files/91497477262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bficlqq7adkchk5tt15l20pag/87876635888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tbsva.org/Upload/files/20210704130126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e45b5fac11b---kemabumuvuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d84cbc7359---nixorawukuxevuxikim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/zowifabigerelojawaferake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085257c75fbc---xapatopatusifasomufobemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t60jqfn5php79udhiq2spmurpa/59913599553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44fc7174ae---38198056099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8867fef826be7a8e66792e31600f325/47087321270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f4d425973---voxoxonutubikujosujifow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef90a7cef1e3fa5265a35f9013f71c8d/papolevirawijiwulafiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/favimomapobanujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae012b2812d---76156783181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7eb80b6dbc96eac5218eb3f54710b49/65117686536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuffalony.com/uploads/files/90437818732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57365462298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/44917422180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/37510138784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=raven%27s+progressive+matrices+score+to+iqPDF 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_off00015802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15802 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 93a42f7139db0185e898aa4e196e9b2011c14f2373ace4318e8ed6704d4abf68
font_01_sfnt_off00017141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17141 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18953 18276 bytes
SHA-256: 172a220e63be40958332e6a8a6e12f5769044c5c054f77338ebd55d317f3b786