Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e482cd2359838bce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 00:16:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fc2184d728b7ed1f76eafc03144bc242 SHA-1: cf67326df05d1f938518295fd6e2db10edc0f11b SHA-256: e482cd2359838bce5ceeb22b8f9a2094f124267464399bf8e0fbd27b73c0353a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates that the document is a link farm on disposable hosting, and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' suggests links to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. These findings suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious sites.

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://dalieuht.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/babajijepesusodato.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dc-07b6a75bc4d0.breakthrough-physical-therapy.com/userfiles/files/rikulilavobuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8df9578f3a0f00685e7ad5933c5eaffd/didijarimesolupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/jumafewibazufutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152a4fc9efc6---23610494305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leonardscopysystems.com/home/leonards/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74764493657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/xowanasonuxilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertf.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2130848848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/zubakeniwuwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dga.gr/ILC/img/file/18291995984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/kulejigonoranuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/30397300974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/97997602420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/xawuwigisukawesasexovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemnhapkhau.com/upload/files/wexekanipufaxasejivamifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://na-bytecek.cz/UserFiles/File/zozepufedebitogewuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oris-am.com/editor_up/sotamuwenavewivoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listocrm.com/userfiles/files/lavipofirojufadiregazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutachterbewertung.de/userfiles/file/mubipivefudatuxewolosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediacast.vn/ckeditor/upload/files/15041107069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f71e95e5bc---fuwebuburapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/majabegefiribabugetumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=put+locker+todayPDF 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_off0000b1ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1AC 10308 bytes
SHA-256: abfefa875197d0810e09efaca7da21cab358a7e662d5702b2638b9eaea90eb90
font_01_sfnt_off0000c921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC921 14808 bytes
SHA-256: 4d1edfb08b88a751efe02c4372e19e37ed78f42e86161c9bd146d0ac4d2163a7
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1