Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0c9609412d77ff0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 05:12:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 629c6324ee664fddb729b355c0cb2d1c SHA-1: 0bce2f8f475da859dc2b10ee4e2a9fc398725df5 SHA-256: f0c9609412d77ff00d8d90cb8d476b939f95f813243c25bbf4e94b51fc436b6f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate this is likely a link farm designed to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

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://thehigh86.com/clients/13680/File/mixanuwovojaxamipeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb1bebe1ec---98285817798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822f500bd61---dumibadowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4b8341360b6f3438866cab05e357d75/84583442455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3831a13ed5c9d3caeeb7e45a35760d97/58301860906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/wuzelemifedupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancingstarsgreenwich.net/clients/1/10/10f73e4104fe6082999c9b722aa65ba2/File/71015535860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc1ec2a92960ccd7f6ac969f15739986/vopinirawovojujoxilererom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05r35i1eso2m9g6uq9171t9at5/24930229242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607327a809ed2---91549422894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aee4f0b098b0c3d817e5ce40b3cf35e8/85692563218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/94947840068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ab4d1bc07---47066410960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbe3af6fc0a317ec6ddeeef4dd8599fa/84994873027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0qehggakstq4sauvq7o8vpven/suxarikaguwaboporof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3f9ab79d2e57ff3cfe3e0cc39189c32/61632516630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/jozunojirezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotherelectric.com/files/80689827151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0417303413---30533589751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/28328952369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiwafavamupetoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/143030120020515a9ea92aab0aec5ba5/1310106201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5t48kqq4unnsckogcvrimuiuu3/latete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/37417797864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe6bf24f78dd830a90f8be502e2e97fd/20750309264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/buvuzede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=applied+mathematics+for+polytechnics+by+hk+dass+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f12d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12D 22656 bytes
SHA-256: be1adb6a0e1e52c16680d01dc1e2efcbde014270ae562584806bbc064c880a39
font_01_sfnt_off0001293f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293F 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 40e66a673f7ec241ee6b5ff3368cce2a59cc92b33e1504241e75fb5517baf57a
font_02_sfnt_off0001437c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1437C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1