Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d09a97432f4ae199…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:58:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a93def2727a4eb65b54197fa451e10aa SHA-1: 3e220dd99d5f1b5d7eff17c9be565e09f7f07f85 SHA-256: d09a97432f4ae1991e61479404cf5d6de7b7512c893e2abf0c8d7b5ccb05231d
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious actions, while the link farm serves to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially engage in SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fed467b73c---95285987901.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://heart-calligraphy.com/uploads/files/202108312221588740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labellebeaute.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/larajolorosazajusetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/5459743291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/farikevupuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dagmarsvendova.cz/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jobenotodugaramevaluje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/34369246462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finalbrand.cz/upload/file/kotidibuzinag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://33podarka.ru/pictures/files/puxoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5g33i7d66jbdnurfchm406dlb7/44464175159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemochem.cn/upload/files/64732234011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdwatch.net/upload/files/2021091202070344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av72-reklama.ru/userfiles/file/16308968429aa3827bba3afb7ff94a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/tekifofazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b5919a8236e00f75ee4f0ab092d6474/31167551222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdmsig.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37977951824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/xibapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/23942707060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlandpark.com/uploads/files/relodozavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/88497714805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39744875192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.com/upload/files/makawitumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/26930155833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/53515872066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=where+can+i+watch+legally+blondePDF 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_off0000dfa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA4 17840 bytes
SHA-256: 2b514ad7e264d6fd02473502a01272a1c2bd88524a9338db988ba9fcceb9e852
font_01_sfnt_off00010e39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012650.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12650 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 6f422cb07b90017be40869f6f9af925402149bace9eae4697ecb7d54b2f14941