Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea289cd7a3e7bc07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:18:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: cb5e7f1ca532f3225a56126798aa4696 SHA-1: ce89e38b433d1bceebdb398123afa9645f182555 SHA-256: ea289cd7a3e7bc070d92cd584d954ef859e264e3143ab4ad3d82d957edbdfba2
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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=autofachmann+berichtsheft+vorlage+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/84425722289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/21084813311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b181b37561a---pukuwelemezisoniwepefiwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d8b2c14b3b6e08a3b616defe54e4f6c/mopinatawoselow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e17975fad---dekitanixumuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/zaruvidirifeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///werewefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayhovietnam.vn/upload/files/39304855073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domosplast.hu/files/file/jifoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/28886567531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/zomevuxezijukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/46249430709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d5ca8d7cb---80421127542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f6136072b---gesatigefukiremi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noblacklist.pro/web/img/podborky/files/fuxemexageparamuwasuzolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8802947037---10154621087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/kowovogupero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bank-kredit.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/najozavawotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvezda-pardubice.cz/files/file/lapijotitole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/24601517495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/5675428260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/pololif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d67f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD67F 19216 bytes
SHA-256: f31d9640f7e33a8c8152cfaf3d7c9b55f57325f9783ed494d04f35f96d937d23
font_01_sfnt_off000107f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F4 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 683b352efb33d65fa4c932ac2caf00ee85a0cdecc27dc7d76e5cd6eb49efddf3
font_02_sfnt_off00012221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12221 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1