Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b41079a3b356938c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:53:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: dbd8d1a514d2f227cfae6b61dd8f54b7 SHA-1: 95b98dd772b1883931a758ffcf00f74fc45fd339 SHA-256: b41079a3b356938cf43234572404e2894e630df329b0c3908f5efd1d6c40bbf9
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that employs a password-protected archive lure, instructing the user to obtain a password to decrypt a payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://stadiumhighschoolclassof1965.com/clients/0/00/0080f9a3d0f10e930bcfc39f0a940e94/File/33303563177.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee7cc814561ba9df66a0caa9f110ea47/kaxafodaxopisukunivisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/kajunuzogusamuded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamebonda.com/ckupload/files/pokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986e139a7e2---rilopojodasekigefaliwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atv3uscbcueg7d8v0u60j1hqsk/67938833520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://storemisr.com/uploads/files/fexotojaxopimiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuoriscena.eu/file/40150678945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/xezani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdbdc4a28c46c308f09db888bdf0a6b1/15601341966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rm2vdp5ae61h45l85kuvh9s5i3/1355439463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe88cedd05---44762575958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/26842341272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081888c7eeb1---suzub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypdtools.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/bogojasex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/88136452222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24r9ieqrs2ies4uul7726fs023/60279591771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/lovirusisepobapoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837b154a826---82034631600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/46943195904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087dcdf6280c---18267446485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/54984682491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+view+pdf+without+passwordPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb14e7f1aa12182c73c8a068e981212b/99141177534.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_off0000f339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF339 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B50 10688 bytes
SHA-256: e4c1264b0584147f1bab52a4572a1c95e973cfcbdabbc8af22fd7ff5136fb83d
font_02_sfnt_off000123fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123FE 17696 bytes
SHA-256: cb01c07cc93a1e462716bc82c0e4337b8da3ed231eb1236344898ac17f4bae81