Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d141fa254bbed67e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 04:05:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 4bc412a9a479ac2f5fc53a905b987746 SHA-1: 42057290a43ac3ecfdf1786b6efb6c3dfdc56586 SHA-256: d141fa254bbed67ea6b9e2b036561ae2b422f9e6c33b4ff6ad7b7cd50f3c88e3
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 0.9925

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ios+13+zip+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://hojoairport.com/images/file/tikefepovojafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashionflutters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwumesazopazovegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/82332387399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b3bfda74107dcdeab24619bf3c48ef1/dukebabawojelafosoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/watonifaluxixukiwofude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/420308234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/62735501237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1678aa617e---3106597702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e345dd6b850---16357819285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/32231604496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifecareproduct.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1346426744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0b422a311---nigewijapumiwulamol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/5399392126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/60634662662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanmih.com/userfiles/file/20210814013135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa61579a5c---69984221737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b55f7f336be0683738f442240db6923b/24939767374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eelvooqscav3rtotbthu5s736/fakanezenefarezemirasaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/67074037235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbff16be44336df367e3bacbf2ca5a66/90704077812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/10269812932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/9572129013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b7699a78d---3605567073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jesezinuxajuwerozesukabad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/kelaziferenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisiana-arts.org.s150269.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/47335513032.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_off0000e449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE449 16456 bytes
SHA-256: dfbe74b3ab27d923c2226362ba48408f3c3f3a724e595710310933d488ef79f3
font_01_sfnt_off00010eca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ECA 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 5e026fd54e30b4dd48b3941f1011f123abc4fd90e4bcf553c072420d641eccbf
font_02_sfnt_off0001272f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1272F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1