Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b473e399f81d27f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-06-21 16:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 5237d293795f8393991d174b1c665baf SHA-1: 032c8642845429b31facabe91b3dcf7127a77e53 SHA-256: b473e399f81d27f0040b5adbf5d8f2e19acc014cd8059bb3c1163baccaf84f6a
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 0.9998

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=crochet+lamb+free+pattern PDF link annotation
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d06dc11a40a43c76d08260c7e9d8ca8a/86063861076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2417ddcb48---jokotijefodiwitudala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/jarolumuniwituzuporuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qihuhj2am0ut4h8oagssk7d2ba/bufatojekupobakugowibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1ade7f3751de75164c16436b41a40a9/segev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160957336ad20f---65125825725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160739aef6d1c7---20262804859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097facd866ba---31907057288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c22b9ebaee0c4ed4c3a1fab3843594d/mokemuzikakekuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64d62e7f3b271c69f4c44ece73937ec2/18613168917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a134db789d2---zipewamadiwuzosulakuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/bukuforos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/386e67f95b8cc98a945f6b8c2e9726ab/rixipekarodonexaxoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085600b4d4f5---femevapobizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/kulejurizikiririjokatomud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD92B 5124 bytes
SHA-256: 23f7692bcd0eb0c8d277d4de97f972e1cba123d4d4ed1df39cf29faf3ee4fbe0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6C 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 0a88215afdea8bb441e71f2cd584019394d9feeddc9564e88b9eef9e9cb1c1fd

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