Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4942eb6a1343980…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:18:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: ba1ce5f7b73d60dcd8be1e860f585c02 SHA-1: 8de65872207d10c43107eafe56bfe85d05f3ce37 SHA-256: c4942eb6a13439804c1bc60bbb82b371f441e1c51872c98a63d0ffbc15ca9dd7
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63f47c8d59b0ecdb189edbbb112363df/27543351972.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gphs84.com/clients/866382/File/76760766940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egf.tw/test2/images/file/kubezadire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f03520515f---zonufikuwifipasuralivexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7e4cc43779ce1fb6c72be707a668e23/65153165988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca7147d2a7---83263777418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///bifofikufeketaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/46528537340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/pojuxokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/24644850138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/xobegako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/35228281198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32911744084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dspec-car.com/js/upload/files/13733542401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/lopitakuxuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cezartravel.hu/userfiles/file/zodobirene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/fonapeguxuwedavesimonije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconartistmanagement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30119325414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e09bbbac48772765b52b241d500b21a/23553627155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfu0mfq0or2o50mkns7f2oguh0/38011703862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ad462d1b3c---83690287101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcpingie.be/public/files/zuwolaguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/jetudujujukasil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=math+fraction+games+pdfPDF 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_off0000c044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC044 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 0624f528b4588d9a34d9b4e8cdb15549c87586a21fe29414aa6fb589ec6f8aec
font_01_sfnt_off0000d982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD982 16688 bytes
SHA-256: 35430333bd25528299db52e0a8bad5a98760fc811ab14450b80254712bb5af82
font_02_sfnt_off00010455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10455 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1