Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec3aee728c7a6e12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-07-15 14:10:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 282c98905d8fc547e2f6cc52d3959c27 SHA-1: 4df21a6b4134254773d8baa77bde94c29e845ab3 SHA-256: ec3aee728c7a6e1221b4b3fde14ddbdc3d576aaf65f850b087b9535f89edfc9a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, including one identified as a compromised CMS upload. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to redirect users to external content, likely for malicious purposes such as SEO poisoning or distributing further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/xotukatumolawonutekuvug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://home-delighted.com/user_img/files/42739276180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6q2sup2kvop7001hv1fmaqjeir/18306696389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e5ce0e0fd---65127287824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l09baod9ea53jof4f162k3kht7/81306054549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/91900310824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/341738679de43a752d1fea184ee75bd1/bazekunomimabowusutota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/40563599038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/43630337394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/danexadirisoweriladunifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/dudabivawot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/tenuzasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882f5d8310a---juwazinunexisomunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landmanenterprises.com/clients/6/66/660ad4be7ac834282af30b44844c6003/File/kopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/rijobeben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suphammamnon.org/uploads/files/32454201985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-7///202177423125615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5dd71df4d7e4e5bfabc132d7150e020/91228094393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/478de3b718c7e286b0db596fbdc2c464/kaxugeginugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/60094265834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987962c3750---74212025751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/14804381991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99fd28a37f8d88f8ef0d2db824185b0e/83321827115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/35159889932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sewajokif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=printable+seated+exercises+for+seniors+handoutPDF 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_off000114af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AF 17316 bytes
SHA-256: a9bdab4ba6569da5c364760b98e2146afed623dbfc7024295c4f01aa40d572b9
font_01_sfnt_off00014169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14169 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15980 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 9da209673d0f2da5f3e1806a93ff9339e330792201471e9ec1081b0c49a1c664