Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb054bcbec272f00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-30 09:45:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 4815caa54e7c778b01cbe58c4dfc9c42 SHA-1: 6c332ac0e2f48f4dab8aafb3c5ff785aac911e9d SHA-256: cb054bcbec272f006da29de6641b1092dab5a2a636372b631eddeb71ca38d37d
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 0.9912

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=left+hand+path+occult PDF link annotation
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fegh15s8vrvccnf1cerg8rkkc7/45424090943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/40353424613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091371ddc560---tunavujosigurafixexutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/bipelas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps-chiptuning.hu/userfiles/files/terujixobezugojirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799c5787039---96090446989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae030a0b68---peverijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612360ece261c---11528470139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cabd0b92f12268749a0021f586a552e/58633172697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09f36f4aebfdd1295493751a10c26bc7/lafoxufobamotowidupusomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975ff05940f5afe0897a30c3d6b2e472/90934195433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b25cf6e8db---fipufudip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/59545979500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/22366399024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a078b910f---85252757479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/nomitumixugoveki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/40422726595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/junorobadonuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a08e6a2f16---7368002602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekikiwumivugupowujat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magatek.com/documents/file/11401370956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1676da544643f6b7be0431f2b81b1894/botagavenuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf72c4e6b9---4630996292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunshin.net/userfiles/file/jogapisivesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrr71.ru/upload_picture/seramifowavebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hargrovefamilyreunions.com/clients/16272/File/29270361595.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_off0000efe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE9 19580 bytes
SHA-256: da6a91263e11793955a7af626c4539328adec51a9af566c6e4fb08d7c21bd7c7
font_01_sfnt_off0001234d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234D 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 80d7d24f4e46817d2fc81408cba39af69eb36bd5fdfd874eb99a5817cebb0ee2
font_02_sfnt_off00013ad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1