Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb49ddb42a5c766e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f0e6510abe692204c9a04b303989abfa SHA-1: 56fdacc83ead44c30d42030f36b42fe436b57598 SHA-256: eb49ddb42a5c766eac6392e8f89d16a5cf0e43923c32739f414492e4632291f0
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202108272253596634.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/83149458658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/mivuzubosapazovebepajaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca44528ad99---64218463731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f632ead6557ca960f170624eb716f4/daxunovizeninoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733e3dcb3cd---75130589821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1v6ab1qsic8l9gekv26dlhtai6/kidizijaxovodubezizato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/zikepaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/8109094258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2552730b8b82ec669a9406c5e5cbae24/xojilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db18008456b77f9b96c58d1d776f934/41903980247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/jakigeribuzepimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3d156e862fb7e57643f2e20ca084810/4927828756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d83a4c8117ee462d99eee9a2b3661c0e/logon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqmt5kt7l6lnl4vc4a8i1eprp3/kusojoburoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/97793576773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/60648158198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021062919473180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/20947059553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrichmond.com/uploads/files/gitafisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa248677aa4---liluriroxivedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f131fb3a599aec54ace3b0073e1ade72/70737120289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2db788a620---80894463827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=teacher+absence+letter+to+parentsPDF 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_off0000f38d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9F 18260 bytes
SHA-256: d21e3eca9960c803acad444a87afe11dd2da1dfd8bbb13b0f6600c934fb6b611
font_02_sfnt_off00013a6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A6F 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 5764f27b6c92cbf82649461f874a51169e06151bcd48f60bb11cdb3df57e0697