Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e601a2c1bafbe5dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:10:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d8ce3c70a2025154d1918197db00c5b0 SHA-1: bf13cd9acc35a48ea2ef132dbfe168dcda2f2621 SHA-256: e601a2c1bafbe5dd1be4585e74f3460d57b524a2371f886ebf159809c28c22c3
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm or distribution mechanism. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories suggests an attempt to leverage these sites for hosting malicious content or for SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://ruilong-ironwork.com/CKEdit/upload/files/nazulumefenedewaxupopuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/47098296503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf0847a904ad81e4f7a0d889a5f3b2ee/kuxekidafetunulupowilolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ece689a55b---womev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e40ea076a5a0e7513eaed69b4ce27647/wesomulitadefepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/zuvitedofuviruwezadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1233c0b666a1c72e5970ef5993e19b7f/motituwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/xifelozuvawoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/zugawuwebuwapebebupabuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xinaluwekebazapitube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/fapivudalerodusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd0df2b4ad5---79737403749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/996965d02d51f7e94fc44a3ba4eca353/gomude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210615183734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3dd85900d7b8873d6b27a23557f991/85794448819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/26304094371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/29543314519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bb51a5f30841003362e82b2854a77a9/maxevisujekawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/xamumezavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f0d70205a9cd3c9e056e33699bfdb97/78390648510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86aba9d35e24f7401b5cae730d0cfaf0/11990942513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/rapuvitabuzizujufamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wabepofejunuzatileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paynechapelduquesne.org/clients/9/9b/9b910c66cef3ae2d1bb1fd5804160a19/File/rumimanizaluximewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcbde90de0a---xenupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=one+piece+pirate+mugen+battle+androidPDF 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_off0000d38e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD38E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA5 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 2d478683f29704922be043b05dc988bea6575a39aca962a6360b5d030c794db3
font_02_sfnt_off00010496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10496 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 703662193d8f366de6788d1a13f45a8bcab3ec11a4662cf8ea0a05eeb018cdf6