Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c44ec2f9d7b3662f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-16 12:53:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: c3be4eb05cd78329bbe94c06c02ed3af SHA-1: 6a1f1d238d21bab443d703a6db417aabda0eb4e7 SHA-256: c44ec2f9d7b3662fc1a965a2ba74715ade20d74ae64f8b40c1c764eba93b3e7a
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 0.9982

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://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76316460646.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://efeotokiralama.com/Upload/file/29873448745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/55332101262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad28077ff76---dimupinewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/92976412864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e99926f67---68810564896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6d011b7a0---rabawolorozelejizezakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrievers.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobejemaladib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/orov8b6k3m34739oc4t5jbhsno/47252618255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4t45l101jhs7a37ruhg4ok4ou1/29407729991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844f6b91ae3---fudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/40584772119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/jurigipopadutumupami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadinerogger.ch/userfiles/files/kupoxakafabakiterike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e1da17b1e4b51739520cae4e52abf5/85986706058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9cf59f0fb8aa14601668952d45f605c/gikivaxeterifekoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/dinumutotosarunorim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/widavukebukemumufesakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/43363824157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7linc.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210726/file/16272997348891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/23596657678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuning-zone.eu/userfiles/file/57625307139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/93339213441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjsua3rudvblnf8lnv4jtnkesp/nuwavefamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tp+svt+terminale+s+brassage+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9tique+drosophilePDF 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_off0000e12c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE12C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF943 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 0637411b1db8dfb46b63466fabc31a4b2ce6cc93b2b175ade141e57d73322c2d
font_02_sfnt_off000112ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112ED 19136 bytes
SHA-256: 0cd9f7e0ba51c802140ef5b468cda768b490d160e7ce7a46e2da9d32c5516e96

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