Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ece297ab44d4c79b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-11 23:47:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8a60b56f37bc4066a8b9b2ceaf613054 SHA-1: dafb072bc91f8049f0cb753870832f26e767265d SHA-256: ece297ab44d4c79b225d9a798051ee65f99a78657fae1abcb626a44cd19f2a2f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on domains flagged as compromised or disposable. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+start+service+on+boot+without+activity PDF link annotation
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poruxejubijemivunakomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-uklid.com/files/file/zujusume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbyjoseph.com/uploads/File/77622409089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109041528156763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurybaths.marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/45396185722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcolono.net/userfiles/files/25665188134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdr.friend-match.com/upload/files/35296285346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/65317550253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shunnasato.com/kezulisanimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altronic.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/gaxamalixakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/1392589282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320cd435ba1---novijozubekewenemewitewaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massarentearchitettura.com/userfiles/files/57684396976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/data/attachment/file/69549556992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bachson.net/upload/file/22155230641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/dasilobitemulemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613556f44c405---28657111389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jezokiwojazuxenotupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613131d89c8ba---jusikolifukesakolozabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdientunhk.com/upload/files/24458549470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapokcmassage.com/uploads/files/202109020513291211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/40419180822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf65705080---pukijuvibadubitujibazube.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_off0000d164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD164 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e97b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE97B 10908 bytes
SHA-256: abbaee89c9632d0081f93ba32537583d9ac5bfc42f92f8c07a5eb251a0e4c3ea
font_02_sfnt_off000102ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CA 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 360ab2db93958ecd083ad965eafeb97d476c4fa61fa644e2c7fe72808572b153