Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8de95d06cd2604d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-08-25 01:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e05f6584a6c14c5f4a79aed55df7aec8 SHA-1: cd45f88205a4c3789e51f0791e4984554f965736 SHA-256: e8de95d06cd2604df2e1dce3f9f2125d0b26ee91cbfb73289597bc8eccd8d3b9
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of link farms often involves JavaScript for redirection, hence the inclusion of T1059.007. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or SEO-manipulated content.

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+vapour+density+of+a+mixture+containing+equal+number+of+moles+of+methane+and+ethane+at+stp+is
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072745c2f4ec---56124549913.pdf
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/29333140425.pdf
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/49699139314.pdf
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608418a267b4d---jokagezu.pdf
    • http://francescasciortino.it/userfiles/files/powukavolig.pdf
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/gilekalep.pdf
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/98551485267.pdf
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba9dff31c20826c0adb8dc8ca9833e94/vejiven.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd2142a353---4780822577.pdf
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ed6bd0cd4d982eee01bdcfad913e85/61031309614.pdf
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853ac85abed---wijujetunib.pdf
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/fichiers/sotilipaf.pdf
    • http://www.propper-droppers.nl/files/file/33567159673.pdf
    • https://bak.vn/upload/files/pagebawezix.pdf
    • https://denimder.org/resimler/files/bovawelizidezigodur.pdf
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/rizilanuxodokobod.pdf
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7206209c14f6ec22a6ce483c235bb9ed/seturo.pdf
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/fupos.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c8d24ba470---69254339313.pdf
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufonijoranel.pdf
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/mulawevugesopadi.pdf
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uukc8ml79dq84u8hk2do0qubcc/24411313184.pdf
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/tosawowopeburuvinotonija.pdf
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/93088769020.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cfd9.bin
7b775fdedf86f7dd84427f29b1b011a14a93714322d76404a47fb2f5732c29fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD9 11696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eae1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000102f3.bin
535635da7636e67630db6bb4cc94ec724a9bd38a11d8fd338eb2ba4052eac30c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F3 17240 bytes