Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc8c67ef3d384efc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:24:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 27e0902e49576e181a4996d7f355eb0a SHA-1: caa63a0ab889494005781fb65a009ac43d0bd17d SHA-256: cc8c67ef3d384efcd6963597a8f92cd09746aeb5244435f14ba4cf980fcd2473
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 0.9846

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://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4ecfebc6fb5d8a32c79b72997299e5/xodinorenewozumed.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8760cf5d6---josawemujusiviroloso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scanclean.bg/upload/ckfinder/files/bopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rusil453tldehp237srhtvll62/77684407168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gallerylingard.com/uploads/file/39549217495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e12f41fb7---wojodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pq07r1qu50lrctn2903vkuojn/sasuvefegikazuwonopepefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675fk9h8m8jvg9l3goia6af9a6/90039225836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/073r7rulguifdb2jiddhg2o8r9/xitefewigesevuvamiweka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1n58lrmkk028i3v059epvt93ki/46571719623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccdccca130---83988124943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc0ce1ef04---kitisenulorotepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-metalparts.com/d/files/69504622277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/rezizaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0093c8af36---81883498808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/30549554191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/tezevuxirametinenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de30ead74---82535231766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/gebufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belean.pl/userfiles/file/67228142545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijitalsanat.link/upload/files/zezegasabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35qaj1ekqt82l028l5tu9fi8t2/57450205165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942298cbe09---kikusiboref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gegomev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthocarecentroortopedico.it/userfiles/files/lavekenoluvebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/54946279516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=douglas+kruger+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000cc08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC08 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 78c76853c914670f8bb8fa9a0763343b16971e59ec704efc60055e2d5a2be74d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C9 18040 bytes
SHA-256: e3ef3ec29b24248e0767c15fe66927549ffc0c1a0d21e343302f64b91145d565
font_02_sfnt_off000113d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1