Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc144980516a0873…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:07:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: db91c0ee9fec513ab35fe5f4f195b58d SHA-1: 4d7d97fb50329f90d3f1526e34164cea869e4d81 SHA-256: fc144980516a087313625f1ec66163b766bdb7878ed8f802551d21a17c70da2f
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 0.9912

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=classification+of+matter+section+1+composition+of+matter+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1620476713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecilingirler.com/resimler/files/juviroxafulanote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/22246334918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/jozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/32628650832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gasukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esangsok.com/upfile/files/tugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensmam.com/userfiles/file/38337017631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prcm3adfj7stsujtnujt6fkhr4/natom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/remabinonenonotapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8057a36a2637b3769d1e9c8186dd666/gujizamofixajatefefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609603a022f15---zigunoropuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/22569153807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c8bf0818e421c55d9373269a65d9c2b/44678603084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/fiwafuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/36078176472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipro.ma/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/57419196123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a935755165a---vewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/50033909901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf1ec4a8b96---35340673609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e81cac8f80---zizenek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86unpdrgup25ojbnh7qk9bno95/nutinapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/toredipemaviriluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/82186995790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/pefelanife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084db0d88c92---zusexibuxofumekixebiw.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_off0000eb25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB25 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 77ad583b77ca09ad0cb3385065a299c2c9458ca617f8502ab9ea99ffb585a88f
font_01_sfnt_off000117c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C9 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 557f2d37a8bce99b3e92a8d2a32d8a76a88367597ebf176f3752d08ddeef01ce
font_02_sfnt_off00013149.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13149 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1