Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5c7b98a543b15c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 22:38:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6681f6bfa5186c61bbe5a2e7b196c738 SHA-1: caa52f772d69ed2710dd910b49f830cf4902ed1a SHA-256: c5c7b98a543b15c1027465af9d10441cfaffe6c625d3e636a83f7d91ecec7d55
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary function appears to be a link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious content, as suggested by the URL parameters like 'utm_term=cheat+engine+for+online+games+android'. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cheat+engine+for+online+games+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b7d17a6d48---33725763425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614af9a6f24b9---xegavibewitawug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j26clean.com/upload/files/tizawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gerbangkuis.com/contents/files/45493547263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/vokusibanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokunoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxusojapetumawaxige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/52558758334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czytamzezrozumieniem.pl/userfiles/file/gubedemixufakuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/gidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsis.com/upload/ckfinder/files/24014211987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/bidiloju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sierrainstruments.cn/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/24985102034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73836929598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.com/filespath/files/20210927115117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161543c2adfef5---7496578641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///20210928231418_393851465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leresto-niort.fr/images/userfiles/files/94988491690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangerun.re/photo/files/jujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/57781257481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/fumabamur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vespaclubcagliari.com/userfiles/file/pavulokunagiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB069 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c87b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC87B 14704 bytes
SHA-256: 1ae760316b9904e7ce6b05b11ed59455ce5d34a32a46ece0f702816a8352c3af
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9D 10832 bytes
SHA-256: d82e299dfaf6ead252e5a8368e3e05e48844645bd2addaa4a591b245a345b422