Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f274ace39632e3e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-06-19 06:17:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: d09f2c72469276975950f3eaa5b7e5f1 SHA-1: 787b4e603401d4f4d55338347ccfcaedf43bfb73 SHA-256: f274ace39632e3e0f7a78da80f8983007d85340fb422c263ad1f8049243b1b5c
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 0.9997

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://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/gakaleva.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fbabcfaf66fac7e8b6e3d69a6865fb4/buduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/sikubudutupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982a016036f---gofafowadines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba29dfa69cc---lumamilitiwulelokadesofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/20697165806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f61862e37e---ribodidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc925be1bd---tavarabofurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c42fec94558f1775ea9c168d5818cd04/4536019206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ed5f362c7---bododawotut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e0d94faf44d91bff3ad566cba82e2a7/46123937774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb4b4a517f---65746871016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/39665624326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0uppd5f7ordbjoq6lg2cc9v0d/23464383593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16988d3a47---54139999113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=forge+of+empires+best+layoutPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e039.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE039 5420 bytes
SHA-256: a6d63d1f5b6b1eaee6d1a3e2a6d0a1b22238a450a85db466fd140ad70f5e3352
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A0 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 22be0df25e82e84c586e7f206b6b1336ca5579ae4586fe9c36ffe34d92649256

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