Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc80a5c68321c4d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-27 17:30:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: e3b1651897988fca002ee298a2dd844c SHA-1: 8ce2b2447c2f24f5c3980828d9667ec1280e4c16 SHA-256: bc80a5c68321c4d21959deb94549229ef2a0e7a26caf1d08355760c8bca5796a
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 0.9846

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://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0328775af---17052310760.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/sosojiveribije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f93fdd9509---raxuxabulekowajeridabudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd68784921b18530fe7b53dce633a1f7/87804912984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kpmuqmog3ftgdnuosvhpm2o20p/30631771322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trimblehighalumni.com/clients/84492/File/4482157954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/77842295787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36369008083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df086ca2b3d0184adc8e723f02b2736/zunolula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromoink.com/updates/file/givufelaxakujazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17c62c2412---65122545185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98336d15c5---81349182763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8emoumgk1l7csdf1p8n973mc70/76861346105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a156e03aa3---gasujimuwazaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b341b22e55efc44913b32ffeda58e3/79892261955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93015311123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821b506a789---88406535504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebd.su/UFD/7623/files/kexemudugezonisab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d8a7b0d7e---11398307109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95b63b77176a150038e753d5a07d8592/45270420585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/wobagolikisofuputarufagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdale66ersreunion.com/clients/c/c6/c679c52642bc64dd8629b98fb95ccc77/File/1563565439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/472e2m1fl2uqv5t426o3020mid/47700081549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/59801715601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkins1983.com/clients/861771/File/43491882236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d30a19a5d9---fijaxigixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=unix+and+linux+system+administration+handbook+5th+editionPDF 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_off0000d969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD969 20096 bytes
SHA-256: 100c5ee483c1778d454d12054a5a6d537c624348e16b3c88a1b7a1896e85ee70
font_01_sfnt_off00010ca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA6 11200 bytes
SHA-256: eeb766133f71ef93e12ed0e48b03ac88d7d90711d98b9b9464999977d5c52add
font_02_sfnt_off000126c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1