Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddcbe6ce01e25701…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:06:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: db683f0289ead2aefbdf731c8ff988f8 SHA-1: 0d9077a389a9988c24fd8ee9fc542c411c18b2e7 SHA-256: ddcbe6ce01e257016d48baf5a57dc734bd24b00bfac9e2b425dcc4cee4b0b91f
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://surveycook.com/upload/tmp/202108/file/46331601778.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/42397496772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usefchina.com/uploadfile/file///2021072217250130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsddesign.com/filespath/files/20210803042810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71661170793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b87d5f200---13623752761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/67711257992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c128e5bcc96---98040887023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aicsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89203292737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livingkaneohe.com/userimages/gufipotape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e822129b7---defituv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12b4514e6a---nevabazobamikivojubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e9fa734be2---64997333064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210626_151EA40FA4257329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alrafeef.com/faisaliya/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92073130660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/zefazodopuwujunuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/99915205266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8905e24e09fa46935ae82c0a26b0b4fa/30769989378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ba84b9c30---zukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021072916491889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d8025a546---14356315470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=photo+size+reducer+i+love+pdfPDF 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_off0000c7ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AD 17180 bytes
SHA-256: c61c8333a0dc008bb6a091c55cfc7b2c4a537dee18b8f8d8f648cc88d82eb690
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D4 10680 bytes
SHA-256: a00a1a19e639c2a0d31c177d8fae3ccf48f6041c15b6685a8f47052d7eee7185
font_02_sfnt_off00010c89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1