Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d411458b245a83ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 19:19:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 03f988317698337b729fdfa361432f2e SHA-1: dc7261f4b20b6beb508b1e35f5b946f19a17ca60 SHA-256: d411458b245a83ad03fc5f2c0195d0d1c3454550bd009d4a1bf2b95e0042e340
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports a malicious intent.

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 https://ciiinnovationsummit.com/ci/userfiles/files/nibinusokumusarej.pdf
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/29317473229.pdf
    • https://nucamsa.es/userfiles/files/sebenuvamevomiposoxeli.pdf
    • https://thegmsbihta.eruditiontech.com/userfiles/file/55764649029.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d9814f20bb---kaguzu.pdf
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/xofexexapokanobalosa.pdf
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/komiwafajefukugop.pdf
    • http://es-manzokudou.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/jegalelolagineg.pdf
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/82200034762.pdf
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/89049435467.pdf
    • https://venusnvs.com/userfiles/file/zoderudori.pdf
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413dce0e6c4---39436125098.pdf
    • http://pgp-puh.hr/fck_media/file/9900650076.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404842811ba---2413099552.pdf
    • http://onestep-tokyo.com/userfiles/file/92904281025.pdf
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/67296464845.pdf
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/25800200547.pdf
    • https://shriramsteels.in/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44816574705.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b13d4a1f9c90848fe0323599af213ce5/volidofomesomedatu.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d799367b0e---40129756208.pdf
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/59956783892.pdf
    • http://hajnysport.cz/FCK_userfiles/file/woxono.pdf
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/xitepevubufunifekaribudid.pdf
    • http://odontoflash.eu/userfiles/files/54561899247.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hard+reset+android+10
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b425.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB425 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc37.bin
00f0c7fce7caac8f0a6c8d7afff611c32c5b085f4691577c06b324510683a256
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC37 16168 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f504.bin
64a14355c2d0983cb7de5e8ed2b0fa179fde44c532e43bd7d3e7a2cca1fff692
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF504 10360 bytes