Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eea67998293846eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:55:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a103bb6c4dbe437aa6f918828dc74800 SHA-1: b90b28b2118bfdbf8550e4ae83a8d7be677338fc SHA-256: eea67998293846ebdea0d7957bd6f4b1be52fab055e11d399400676891d00915
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=official+guide+for+gmat+review+2017+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xazemafujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62bac564348079d14874f4611a735ef8/28551959031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608675c7b277d---96163275366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d2dc4c8bbf927d2728036426c74d489/rinunin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609600bf62e4d---38320288336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c590685028---81972777549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc186f2f6a---zonutazudibefelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309dc134525---86042813217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0il9td05a5ueva8bmjlspi7o3/junumepususase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a99e9de427---bajakaditorijofajalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsbettingconsultants.net/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97419570537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioixedap.net/upload/files/71752579156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210810193557_s8v68g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppiesulove.com/clients/7/7f/7fa6d7836ea929643a3c23f4562b158d/File/jiwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/42142004828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/sonisejiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ad94f69743a318d2a839b809151d38/xatibolowiwisotexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/82471866386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/47732866929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210531065615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210803193808_dv9zv8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukinserv.hu/file/tamelikilosareja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/90710321424.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_off0001009e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1009E 11416 bytes
SHA-256: 81f651abd003ebd7a7a6d42313101a9fdffa7178bd5ee0fb2d102f95ea79fdd7
font_01_sfnt_off00011b81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B81 20448 bytes
SHA-256: 969d29edb9a3e2754095a71533287389fdad0999bd4016b303b1b6282e6a449a
font_02_sfnt_off000150e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1