Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d17896acafd4f887…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 12:23:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fd10796a1b5b23c3089df69e5b4e2757 SHA-1: 7643f1920335ee578e1cb967bf6728a1163c329e SHA-256: d17896acafd4f887b20b76ab39d7c0d8cf03f573cfce3cdbf8f932e3980666d7
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 0.9975

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://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/69516794856.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/3090048559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352ef227e34---nobezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/xatevemosuduvudeterulezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemmurad.com/webroot/img/files/ladezubivefilafofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/54870804451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70134830821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/rirosajedorinapawavenora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/jaxedomemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/zarufokeriwumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmarysharipad.com/userfiles/file/telomatoxetotawipixola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/09/05/file/20210905_025806_152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f1-rennsimulatoren.de/userfiles/file/98772242678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/69862122236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/sovurusakegokebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uran-berlin.com/userfiles/file/80505259430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/pelasifomogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b243c1b00b4a3cab9cb454b5015a15fd/duzolebuloworotinis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propage.q-cloud.net/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/69155277267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/rimawazojekevoleritif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dansobentre.net/uploads/file/32869435161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a2ead382a1---29794497659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/43277965331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109050422334801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciprzetargi.pl/files/file/radanaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=rocket+royale+hack+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000d1ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1ED 10668 bytes
SHA-256: b3cae48f576c9de8686bc4805c0e4ceb0244e5c0641423db60dc69eaaf7ae54f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6F 17592 bytes
SHA-256: d2c71288619fbcba83feab435a53526b4eccd74336ad6ac99f726f8cd0aafae4
font_02_sfnt_off00011850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11850 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1