Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b56c6ca0838940d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 02:36:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 2c42a38b979689f9c32103cff70ad641 SHA-1: 134b2a97833da287e8fb0ca0844bad234c8014bd SHA-256: b56c6ca0838940d6202c0b47c5546557c77b1c96f3996339141a8c24028789ca
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 0.9942

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sto+tomas+batangas+zip+code PDF link annotation
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/3257083920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalbizkorea.com/userData/board/file/27391164424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613058dfd1703---94602073420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/83478401368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/45567185849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cadht977dbu92drmcich2jb1n/zedelomeruzeroviraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugevomiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/8372966320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/80766329097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/89372479237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protum.se/file/87980498407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/69081414424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/fuzijebafajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://car-zone.sk/data/data/file/gakolufotezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmakler.org/userfiles/file/segemamonujivazegizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/84665106767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/22934684176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3ae8b1468f9aa6ebbc4870d147d8772/7064569980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/11194941833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ooexperience.be/assets/Image/files/xuvoviwavapakinezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parikshitconstruction.com/uploads/99766463740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efsanepin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/97867618543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/90476537569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hai-bi.com/uploads/files/202109071933219709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simorgh.it/uploads/file/65667511324.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_off0000ed18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED18 20296 bytes
SHA-256: 219245a96f3cf16032977ea4db7846c1cbd563698a30c082dab5a427bd0eaa6d
font_01_sfnt_off000121ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CE 10984 bytes
SHA-256: dea79ec87e6a7bdbc133fead658f59819c1d5f364f7a2ab81c441fdf51e10fb4
font_02_sfnt_off00013af1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1