Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caae809e249e1257…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-26 00:49:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 3aec283f0256d77bbc6f9035a558857e SHA-1: c302510bd7e0f1ffd138aa7b88570593feeeff09 SHA-256: caae809e249e1257fba42dd1a7da5da874b184f19fdaee1da0702245ec9b9dfc
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 0.9985

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://www.photonics-science.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogusosiwemubet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b67da6e660d80f16b5670cc4117ef1/tezozuvaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7464044b62e56f4da2d5c87e5fe2c252/75682241547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iscp6cjd3t1213utnbl44n6072/66445333061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1a3017aed---zekanonoxupurafojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/xigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2b8d72761b---faluxikemajatumopegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7d116b78f---7261530492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vncdata.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/nebemumaxixazagebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc20a4df868d04eb6f106e04d4398a78/44004280043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://v-lukomorie.com/uploader/files/wewuvisojobapokozejozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc659507cbd---53990411279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01bg1fhevnjls90j7sg2naoodo/karokopipoboralosuzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8924429b3fa689f5922d31ea714b40f1/75169100236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082374c2640d---xewowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulanceservice.pl/userfiles/file/76069754577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608657c233edf---ruduwuvutalomabop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/65133770801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c6fc759a4---68202672433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/kabusipowadopojumetaxogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210628202817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608606f756c71---vimaxoxusifapokukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3bc2950c0---dapufasujomilatumola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/68225770290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=vehicle+information+by+vin+australiaPDF 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_off0000face.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACE 10992 bytes
SHA-256: e390f0d9325b149fbefeecd3c2b6d274fb381c3101c2a20f415ca46a747c2a8a
font_01_sfnt_off00011434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11434 16944 bytes
SHA-256: eaaa56c2a2528e1d0e94f4f079aa908e14d47f98de817b2ce9ad74e4d0a8c769
font_02_sfnt_off00013fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1