Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0acf545ac2b06b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-27 19:35:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 879f0213fa75173643327a6cb43f1f58 SHA-1: e43e037254713a1a5ce53c8ad24558edf5b54f0c SHA-256: c0acf545ac2b06b39ab7520c681f6b1994e60e3ac6acd6c081225b2bcabd70d4
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 0.9974

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 http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/56417603670.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clarkstownhs64.com/clients/2/25/255c49a504cbad61718694d8b78dfcdd/File/20252119293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9431bedcc195913ac95cf0983a478b35/42637949436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/11672474304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/87889626039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a54f73b77ba---96411830921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/fefujobave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mallenmediations.com/mallenmediations/images/userfiles/file/linojase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/gugopokesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/bezorubazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/82457140922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d19032ddd7285bc3d2ffe1c2160c480/81282317222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a47075a0e---89390248286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909322c9428---60590747024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/81150889229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92412f3315c4d11343f1bab459ee5baf/64738583511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ba3f8fd14---32181485739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/7677882352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/lobumomakimuveze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90d7dda7d3c8281387e63ee1e756159b/podemijumedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8938fdfe6478108e0a188d4387522f9d/bekikesuwivegazodeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a863e557a163dd3c111d0334dbab8d6e/pazebomadajoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acee60c25c3---12394447841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/fimifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2106090958588737577cg1r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=disclaimer+of+consequential+damagesPDF 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_off0000e27d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27D 11064 bytes
SHA-256: c779c36881649907913a9b1dfe14bb682c96c1d98c5190f8287dc7e70adb5fbb
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D1 18796 bytes
SHA-256: 3bf184fe7378861a6f875c07d1231b3f51eb3535962695f6d80b2fb763be9976