Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbeff21add6a3208…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 06:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: eddb3330ece9a9bc36568dc2b44b178d SHA-1: b5b31e271ff1a9286046c6bd28c32aca57c2bffb SHA-256: fbeff21add6a32080c9bd0cc6b94e9a9610e9d2923f2c1cde9ea8a12c6e8104b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to domains associated with link farms or compromised content management systems. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and ML classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zxing+android+gradle PDF link annotation
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sadugelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtipartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48747892100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/80263746533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culfordequestriancentre.org/UserFiles/file/gopepibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380442921aa---lotimudezaludorivefuviwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/sexugopimasejitojamudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pekingtogo.com/uploads/files/29356544584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/rulijejedilutema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94421592793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turdv.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/pozotifudakidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldcpc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57669056301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/11395718578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/92507107798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134dcc89eda5---dopuzaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonahotel.vn/UpLoadFile/file/64484007164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acconpriti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/segirofuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilmachineydy.com/d/files/xedajuvurepanuruwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c43hnf2uio836p77lnu4le0kg4/3204737974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://value.ae/userfiles/file/gulejufeligex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelowidedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompassztuki.pl/Image/files/vovesexenalizorusinugew.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_off0000c56e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC56E 21492 bytes
SHA-256: 425e52633b340c56888a0a0ef24e2acb60249d7de5f6f622be31f43373e81d86
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD73 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 9c588e0beb1aa2a7f97857c19d60d74cf6f679494c4fa04d2ab8793f4f912b9f
font_02_sfnt_off00011440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11440 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1