Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f800080472965887…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:00:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 0164fdf06dfc7f27b23a33bdf38b0f5d SHA-1: 156404b1547b80d6d8069802bb8a93fd2b62b088 SHA-256: f80008047296588754edc318ef2498c29cddeb7113b62c869acbb294b65bcfb6
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 0.9978

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=find+out+your+iq+test PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8b8d819680---75839620749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs/files/tudirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/46297161104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609deb2626870---86701747695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowalstwwo.pl/public/cms//images/file/61796747871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/964e0008b95b8c201d5b45f534b350e0/58323055908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----1-6cdapb2bdyqawnpcindqfc.xn--p1ai/media/file/30488125359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9864988652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ab7d02acf---21391803479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071efdf30b64---3941184961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rmoptbgvqme5bas76mr43j3a0/mozufinixategatedaniloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/zagexigeberid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatngungoisaoxanh.com/upload/files/3176603841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/miluxotekuxojaluzibuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/65649972798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piradefevamofalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086714a3b5e5---23954808940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/69249464228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgk5j4j3hg2uev1gtuki1vr6kb/40323860846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/monaxapiwogugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/648f6a4c9ec44d571a97eb6fa01c1ff8/wogajatugaxidavavatebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mo0svr06bkjin0uf5j7i6ji4m1/50759378466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnsonsdynastyincfamilyassociation.com/clients/10108/File/34190833042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapinuvimafanukapudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d3b3d77ed5b0fd02ba0aaf0f587a452/48945437167.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_off0000ea68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA68 17364 bytes
SHA-256: ad0bc5d0dc4f85f6cdcb001ed9f821304b8e376c8fb9cb35965fb1d3cbf4f703
font_01_sfnt_off000116ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F03 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 8f5f0f7b4234aaa06dfbf19b377c0400cd60f7fa0b87f3d1b673406f740ea171