Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c70b46fb2841183a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:43:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 072e421912af34bb2ba7270d4cfdacfd SHA-1: 8feca2abae06fb2613641e894aa5b079d15872f1 SHA-256: c70b46fb2841183aec6d1c7a9dfac0ca4a3d0d083b03903db92b7519ad4a1296
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic suggests a common tactic to bypass security filters by encrypting the actual payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+apk+download+for+android+highly+compressed PDF link annotation
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f44ac6c52b22595235f0367705da14d9/forijuvukonavokopidonidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo-calson.garment-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/webaxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/64026594014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimenezricarte-deltabogados.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuwejidiwuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35eknqqoddbufiudp53oeo137r/2209707655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlandpark.com/uploads/files/xepilupabugipizaraviwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20844852025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/redumovidokozetevuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphat.net/upload/files/zorivigetojibugupozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents/files/kobofofikabapuwetelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bankubezpieczen.pl/userfiles/file/83578630888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c348ebd73---59694170394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgsconsulta.com.br/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/76646602869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowegimelavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/files/60343017421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d55eglkim5d9hlj3sk92oc8rp1/88698393447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickelsgrafikdesign.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ravidemifalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csam-villepinte.org/uploads/images/file/luzagopamataxosokuzope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/fuganivasatuwomejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613391304190c---48092661599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/pizujine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcetravel.com/files/file/16633881341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hoetnbcoqup18h84b9r6qcror7/31132703590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avesta-hmora.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/duwowiladis.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_off0000c0e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0E5 17628 bytes
SHA-256: a7ba0d3b210a75c414e147d513936a5ba8f84ea2031e9906e297ecfbea8bc471
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE72 11532 bytes
SHA-256: 1caf0820b58fb1da195a449c9f2e1123b78a062cf53fc6e8a8357b5bf6016e70
font_02_sfnt_off00010988.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10988 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1