Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e725ac37e38725ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 97099dddb916c6789095c6f0ae81d06b SHA-1: 52f4b12343d0c21405bff8cefb12f17c1f2b239a SHA-256: e725ac37e38725ec0dffbc90f2ca4f57de6c37ab965b00cb25fe117ee3b8093d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a focus on directing users to external, potentially malicious, web resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/058b70827d5516579ff1b01dfebe09f3/9003835131.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160e7f84862ede---gewojemebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/97729337545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/gujuvatoderuvoreset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banning64reunion.com/clients/a/a7/a71e9339640f4be667ed55590a288245/File/fijukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/57639274247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/99012588095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116770b2f455---zubepisonidoxukunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/jaluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-mit.com/uploads/files/bupovaxinubisire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763e33bc84d---39956225373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/nenafuxalinigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebornfair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210817_49F639FD4CEFBC06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/010027105388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/rotarufugurenopuvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/87766617002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdc5861eb4---28144319993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/dopezomojirefanedefuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/63857998100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=conditional+formatting+in+excel+2016+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_off0000d558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD558 18280 bytes
SHA-256: 99d535aba0f391459afecc526d8487d2c3351d5f286eca62c1ae9e1b941c3bd4
font_01_sfnt_off00010566.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10566 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D7D 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 81cd7f39121289f7ee9f97f3cde86e04f1fd540c19d5b3306e3e8c88da29a990