Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c69098fcab7e5ebe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:16:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 86b8bee067726a7e000908439f9b7c59 SHA-1: 54d0fdab66b860931971cd41b496e39217032163 SHA-256: c69098fcab7e5ebe1ad8b2f7d88488b892edb20040019e887532a530279cdaec
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to external websites. Several heuristics indicate that these URLs are part of a link farm, with some hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of malicious links within the document to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb62487c92f33bb36054919ef951d63/lupalokifitiwowoxevuwemo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://synergyproperty.com/images/files/63674076829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chokysitohang.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/semab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenhungstone.com/uploads/image/files/19000351433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gakajotidole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41249757704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b15be2649328793dcd537148f7ae9725/vamapoxafakifubeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/wubewareroxomabebinex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienlongadv.com/upload/files/57944054509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/114b94b24927e50128b98261628135f1/vowifatobezuxuxebezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834deab14c7---risogogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medius.sk/userfiles/file/duduregatoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navliecky.net/userfiles/file/7076075256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07ee229518---fuvugakelumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c65318f75---mixovujawigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3be001e0bb197603fd00873657a9e8bb/papase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/pijenebosim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtime.com/uploads/files/202109020555509364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iktoktatas.hu/files/file/18703527299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/33163642419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/17374843145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otsvub1nsspff0e6ad38eh7u72/temej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=the+city+that+never+sleeps+dlcPDF 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_off00010846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10846 18164 bytes
SHA-256: e34556f883b93d7423a86bffb1ea9f5a1c54b9a61de098b629dfe5cd562f9eb0
font_01_sfnt_off000137bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014fd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FD4 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 8e9a111fd0b73bae8e0c5eafce0e4d0825f03d24128413f325df7e32e93a51d0