Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb0003023c5dadb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:31:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 2186284bf3ba0ea29c79693d8ff1dd98 SHA-1: 37788e033325cd90e6bc51e8642fa83c47159d8e SHA-256: bb0003023c5dadb01fde2faaf53ad6aaff65f5e4598ba1b290110963406bbc50
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to distribute or redirect to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF's nature as a link farm is a common lure for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9784

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://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/25000496780.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/tewumaloxoxegasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/viwavagomovote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cda.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17108373345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1b5d9ada6---675965441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/di9dpg364mpdpqqbso5snh1u4g/vuliwulaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milliondollardesiclub.com/upload_files/featured/files/pogedipuxarevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5542a21d42b287f4ef28b86938c70c67/92865939097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef340991a5---91110868244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c0d876132---kexutonadunuvivumiwunipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc602d8b0c6---suzizifozajolilamusegefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68bff0a4fd---13777860304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janatalnajaf.com/basefile/janatalnajafcom/files/45769285322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/214ca7fec568890262b2288832d94e5c/nefolex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/towujosofakurajigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/balakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wikusewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/terikuworuzesov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948554c7d02---xaxixomajigemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/bovufowatopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigyikesmedia.com/home/xtremweb/public_html/consultinstitute/web/upload/files/gogijakatumijos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bu9m7nheqqbc3nskl18bbv6sr2/kexanuxorifikitufuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cf33b01d6---79109560210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76j1sdujqjsfkfppdd9hnep0tj/5257058664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qasfjqvm64evu8hravb1knvqc6/97650274035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synersys.fr/contenu/file/dabezineroxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/walagimidedagatatezigojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=accelerated+reading+quiz+answersPDF 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_off00011b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001338a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1338A 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 410d79fce87a8218bacf6879b9008ffd0c3166c89ef835ddf26add871875eb8b
font_02_sfnt_off0001629b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1629B 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 53645146da2c1567b57bf7af189dd681e66d8308125daa080fbde141195bcb26