Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1c16a7b3172d35c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:15:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9ee72071708a93b4a62bbe41f78ca919 SHA-1: 12add1bf4c2b167f968a1c03a9fc2adcf6f1172b SHA-256: f1c16a7b3172d35ca021fa8d46271317c1e91c3dc8eb1914f20ff2212eba756c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to other PDF documents, many of which are hosted on domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. This suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://thegioimaychaybo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/93732383266.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/76438113290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/lemerogelazuvuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127f28e76d18---98673233459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4aaae928c2---45002365406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/45264884973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numere-mopede.ro/mm/file/71893119596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/tesujigono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/mejiminusumarabujujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76998106493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dca69f367490616210890ee00c46c17/43531486958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/renuwujuwafaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/vimotuseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ad0705a9f---dubisuzosilogow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leanuslab.com/UserFiles/file/dozudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9plngn11uplf8o9aqf28og3205/63944702312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgd6ti8adg6a7vdpldg374qt06/rajorevijidaxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be8b66b7bd9e47bf7e820e5f07719d52/74952935318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/89244781506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbisan.com/userfiles/file/74535554000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611481ea49946---xixiwogilebovusugeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3987209be---63621221850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/zolotunolosajikirepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/75190479980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3e620a3d9---13660375887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/83752565957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=todo+sobre+el+daltonismo+pdfPDF 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_off0000e7db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DB 10760 bytes
SHA-256: c237be522348e2f8e498df70ed7565b0f054823148880b2b9fd9c58a94ba413b
font_01_sfnt_off00010054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10054 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11866 18784 bytes
SHA-256: 87d6a1b423d1d53840059513f9d1658829f945a5fbb8b3667ed57d40fd530c0f