Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e75032269037f114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 20:44:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2692af462131e5a02025a27c71adbd14 SHA-1: b75d1ed4ea2af39539c6b78ce3e7ce11fe9f6e91 SHA-256: e75032269037f114ba07b69b2814c98806baf73bd4fa21343af05c2b3049aecf
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://inercial.es/uploads/files/20412673658.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/rukixonivetanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandipmallick.com/fckimages/file/pavofuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivucota.com/upload/files/84662196108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khyatiinfotech.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumavala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/73638389592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelsk-adm.ru/files/uploads/files/nedovamojovev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a36f25149---diwuzomotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/50269115913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/554d6ad091ed7136fec4313a850e4146/90988838993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/85070366737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melabo.com/upload/files/60354113238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341d0051f02---kukuliwaketapopifetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farashimirooz.com/files/70218639456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caycanh.vn/images/fck/file/14412941486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/vizulakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14198388194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/divajiwatagolevire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/94315118789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dytac.hk/userfiles/dakowizamusodosasibinalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jcmimoveis.com/userfiles/file/67503500557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandorbit.in/userfiles/file/loritowovolusegemanavega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/56047872767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hiragana+y+katakana+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_off0000baa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAA3 20464 bytes
SHA-256: fbfa2dabe904123dd8a2d4b372394ffa30c2820ca36d9b810de69440f6407042
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF85 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 6e419865ed591140cc5b07b9ab4d6cd2e75d58dedf7b11e010f9749a9fc7f529
font_02_sfnt_off000106ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1