Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebb107597e913ea5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 22:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d261d3c95a252138b4dce04973d93772 SHA-1: 8e64284e46e67e386a452712f11a7fc9207b6d0c SHA-256: ebb107597e913ea507f39d05dcf5e54997ee4008dafc3f9b20ee9d63601fe23d
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, many hosted on domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious documents. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://donghobaoan.com/uploads/files/pagus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/88592221978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/3615538032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/6663454178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210619_12E0F9BD32F86252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202106/file/xesijikobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2c7b55e54---61328133804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/sozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980e22a51a1---xudotuvamajupewuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9j2us2jblvm28dvchusnfgn2oe/67879704599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/827725ce5d0b9f4e4478e414bc68ebec/mubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e2a146c5e---wupodovufigijurisitisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ca63240ec60d3e3a96c97a9f21ab801/terusegonolowivipevovon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b96b1ab7d9f---92618378954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/zesamuxomalevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4651cac61---tigajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40dc7c5c07c53bee35043e6bd1151922/xoduwufudaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823972e3447---kikudekuxagopejarame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/datorulenuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e557e5c6deda980acd9794d342381e7/rofuzalifotedavusokufaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b232575f766---63806384884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuyennhakienvangvn.net/upload/files/danilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57291dc047d8c4ce94de819e2aa025e3/22116814411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/kakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72f634fb83---95764913451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73812819819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=communication+system+notes+for+class+12+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_off0000f51f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF51F 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 976cec2e366cb4cf111f0874254f9cb9e5e2fa786ec33d07b4b87a005030fee5
font_01_sfnt_off00012186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12186 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001399d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1399D 11196 bytes
SHA-256: f6900478153b15595571371d132bea40c2a26c07d4f7de13445a614752dc8ddb