Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecfaf8738cf10680…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:54:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0780a997274ecd5a171a3a231739a17a SHA-1: 12181be0690811d1a5338ecb74382e85a07f81a4 SHA-256: ecfaf8738cf106807ce2943335a812aa93709e221e49079226ac28e15314f416
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 0.9961

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sufism+in+urdu+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/39204928438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eifgbah79u4vnfij3s79ab4us3/7447128946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/83803507767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770919451f1---85654676444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/44389263837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/72720488553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73337151041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/89203186973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betheaskssd.com/flash/betheaskssd.com/file/32554262675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a2759320a---17048024833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgjbreunion.com/clients/6/69/6950e03db8b1ea894755b369f0a03c31/File/58402290162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cncforginghammer.com/d/files/deduwikovomenavuwiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/82485615007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021070920262373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077dc0115d1b---2757518267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uopj5ib3qhk8mdhq4565hpg2cf/desoziwanikokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/ravosewoxagurixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/95524332654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhhhqdl0db2nigopi0d2bivo25/totuliwujujiduxulavigori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pemasiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongsen.com/img-chamthi/files/16778215879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/nuginavegilukuwovotulut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3920cf5746e59fb80daef4dddc1b358c/29959917498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/82676286190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b197b87dcbe---44153443539.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_off00011e46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E46 21228 bytes
SHA-256: 0f655bb6e8e5d72990392a9f7ec5cf549c9145c58c293393c9ac49f8a33fb108
font_01_sfnt_off000155ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155BA 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 395f7a4be4479dbfb1c9b0b0d3147168f37ab6371fcb06bdbe303badb2243a0b
font_02_sfnt_off00016cac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1