Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b67aec87ece37470…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-17 16:33:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 3606d180bc2b24874752450fb7129354 SHA-1: 86bed22b023b3d4b9ce0c80990a5f5e5fcaf1637 SHA-256: b67aec87ece37470f8cfe54c82573a0a65d69754a65cf2263bda411a091fe38f
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 0.9997

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://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49c90d41ddba6453e4170ba8692d1080/tazaru.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mg574s9ppvj00hod3qtcgpjqm/97227962228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupeboboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c66041db8---63049181346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/direnigegepogenuzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/86392455199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ebe69f7a6---11879375973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66dad97282153413811c7f7650c30ee2/84550024397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4d462ce1d---bofemofuxezobukilogebijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65b20ad8c9---dufaxovagutuxubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f7548fe6c48588a01934a4e52074bc/kaliwofemujitujipemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c79bbb75c4---79206414472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/butodukexeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/6091343714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/bopukivupixepepezixubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/vafenulekubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hearts+of+iron+4+great+warPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001101d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101D 4832 bytes
SHA-256: 28963187211802ab7a356f0e6383e384ee8ce261d2a6a7fe4e09aa4810050bfe
font_01_sfnt_off000120a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A7 10856 bytes
SHA-256: b6621b7219bdfcb73dc51573ef8e1312cdcc9079c17f3da758fb25faa7d8335a
font_02_sfnt_off00014540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14540 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3