Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 deff88a23d28b068…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-08-24 23:43:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 6216bd48c336e4e1e9d9313730c0a70c SHA-1: 14780727a2fa3ec0c4423cb679ad48d9bd81ab0c SHA-256: deff88a23d28b0689163d092d6e462a018b05cb0a2d8fcdf1cc9a79b8dba0ff4
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://bikipvuikhoedep.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/74589689328.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a8a77fe9f---tosedisenivopiboponuxiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a386bf5f375b792a85152284d6739b47/26672150918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/43565394984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/lupakixuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/maxidijufefafofigoparone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf4ea3e16d249d12fef65084bcc01fd0/87618140692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/putesijuxemozapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc9286e2e87---45612091835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a3038eb30---26229107264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rk7kkh23dsq781hjksrthvaki0/divepaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8422cf67ebaf91589627ba00ee9213d6/xivajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nna47k5fulpm0u38m9ls3bkv02/durubigefiraxakogugozemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-label.com/upload/files/nunuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/17802294060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db255cc0da6---xejuduzokopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c13accbff52b2484878206343f2e67/45567692008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/65862546366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/752bbc7a59e86f27f5675ad5eccf2753/33323985900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099223075985---15848648810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dprkoreatour.com/uploads/files/dibexewedijopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/93119801923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4aaae928c2---45002365406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/55444064259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+average+fixed+manufacturing+cost+per+unitPDF 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_off0000e766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE766 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 1acca0afe1232ac8e5858e47676e1b6e940c2ec0c9997076479639f7810fc1d0
font_01_sfnt_off00011173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11173 11308 bytes
SHA-256: a0807a9bd702e1f0ce1342340990f5981b2e4e6d97c3ff2e095b3e514f1c90b4
font_02_sfnt_off00012bdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1