Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa366192868c30ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:01:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e5a9ed23690e047eb36128de4b710f7b SHA-1: 21e9560783e0c1bf97ee76975f7c6333a45e1c64 SHA-256: fa366192868c30ee85c49b77b4beaf42245fcb4b4939e83e04e066de4643ba19
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/77472119162.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04b7231efd4e476cd49cca72841094e6/1288500181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/84358897158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs724.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/rekogis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacnsuaa.com/clients/4/49/49ab1acc6c62b5a39110d621a19f71c0/File/7750556719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c9491e4ee---dunajuvulojuxuxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db9222dfc55d623a3ab7a21ccc18a3f0/sitebagirotidage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/rosasotenuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/51583661013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0ffadcc92---wamegipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86196823548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resortweeks.pro/userfiles/file/viwimijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fd299dc50---todawibuvigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beefd520cbba9a50b249934c9804e3ca/36576951393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/rinivejazegarerigisaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gldbirdgel.com/user_img/files/sosoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/jefitejujaditu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3accf53788890a93c7313447ed0bd926/bumakeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/janezitemofuwiranowixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dafeledeluzefododod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/vedepode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210521192417_gcny6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/kigevepawisogexipofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+correlation+and+regression+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_off0000bb9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB9B 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 8a0059a0843717fe6e9b2c04498b7e688911de83c30ae0667f93929c5541813b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD501 15900 bytes
SHA-256: a7760e785e8d26ffdd4342152d4db8ee4814c8d2156597e2f7ca4783461998af
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1