Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbaca7273b47257d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:06:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aec7e44b9b2d7e88b65f5a23a0a7cdd9 SHA-1: 1fa2baae0906de66ba3064290c6a3dc33f4a92e6 SHA-256: bbaca7273b47257d42a6502477702a4c790cfe94e35f177db4f83b1b133cada8
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external URIs supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or content distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ncsccalgary.com/userfiles/files/97443732502.pdf
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/12611405674.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140914d81f73---xapiribobixanuboka.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161445e3a8e57c---pefegelojorokijil.pdf
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/196401fedd039e918eed87fa4bace89c/62525386768.pdf
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161450c44b2928---40887956519.pdf
    • http://bamila.vn/luutru/files/28032913230.pdf
    • http://whipitleather.com/userfiles/file/vekup.pdf
    • http://drxzhang.com/userfiles/file/99808230692.pdf
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/19731014626.pdf
    • http://tischlerei-schlusche.de/sites/default/files/file/76102052324.pdf
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613445a4f1309---47978222765.pdf
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210918_64113DA06FF1F10A.pdf
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuzerewipipunodawivuvugu.pdf
    • https://divetechmarine.com/contents/files/zufaloxuzudiba.pdf
    • http://synergyproperty.com/images/files/86790096822.pdf
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/32129920662.pdf
    • http://nieruchomosci-swidnica.pl/userfiles/file/21795406748.pdf
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/12850126772.pdf
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/94363240850.pdf
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/wilevakowule.pdf
    • http://educaholistica.com/resources/img/imagesck/files/mebowo.pdf
    • http://felixefontesadvogados.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50796290967.pdf
    • http://energyexcess.com/userfiles/file/79419688044.pdf
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021091406194173499.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=use+bluetooth+mic+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3a6.bin
1f7fa95add2ee28e63b878bb80edc8d4bfd9b5dfb19034f92e5f8a3bad53bb64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A6 17848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000111c4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000129db.bin
dbf692ec40445327a08486b6e9b87711119a023a671bca5deff23fc6cb94cf59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DB 10884 bytes