Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbd28a199440706f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:29:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: facf199a4085d6540a098d931518a711 SHA-1: 09b87c0b144bace547e0c0cd75034bf1369a78c7 SHA-256: bbd28a199440706f54052cd4a0d29a7a079af8adddb4c7637a1d3ab001dcea2e
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK' indicates a link to an algorithmically-generated URL, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of these links suggests the document is designed to redirect users to download further malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d142075a09c7cfb42a14a8be984f83/1398313316.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/76873741970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865e5b18b6b---tapubutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannhuaduong.net/upload/files/86885214953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/75789454352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/fusuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao9trrmhekdv17al7dgvhueqj0/53267470763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/dololilebojugoveguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2131acd6634a3fdaf88f85ec85bff50/luwemipurupevaperifonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/67952861034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa0693a135---51122422538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/daditubarekiwazaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e43056882c6913b3a801fbbd4651c24/68250244192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.micron21.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80308505623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/473060b2cded5d0e1e772f6665dee8c3/53597922045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daa9e12a88b---31097976539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a817b6238a---dejazavolediben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/47897796432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/gawile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/vazaxoteparuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/97943054035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://developmentassociationofnagaland.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/pulukamofoximalumesowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/10322137260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bufajusowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e467437431---rafexibajugubarobomotozum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=fanuc+cnc+manualPDF 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_off0000b8c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D6 15244 bytes
SHA-256: bf86ef830762e51253731cb36ba7eb2cf2d6c31224bfc4132dbc1e7dfc03b670
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A8 9756 bytes
SHA-256: 1ab8d943e50b579f073d8090111d03d1632e3c54b611cb87628ae82684f27af4