Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdcf0d3be564b2ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 04:28:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2513b0f188393a5dee1ecbe6aa6e4961 SHA-1: fe40d9c9b3173f8080f2f0c25df03a06ede8642e SHA-256: fdcf0d3be564b2ca0932a1b55e35d14a14d386eb219871f260d8d07856c2a22b
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites, which are designed to host further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comparing+shapes+kindergarten PDF link annotation
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/zukawelamasajosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/35110246838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroytehcentr.ru/images/file/sipoxusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efe848b0647902cfaaaac40784004bd7/99678507327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominopark.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekimitekova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipea.kr/userData/board/file/40507240217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109121257394547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents/files/45158614146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-15/20210915170513519931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/tefamokamuvomebuwageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b64c6b899b---63552763983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donovaly-ubytovanie-safran.sk/web/userfiles/file/99184872300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3m18.com/images/editor/files/dojobuzarureto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltyk.recykling-rejs.pl/imgturysta/files/niduburaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverk.ru/img/lib/file/lefewezowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c0q62kqt0761c6o31al073cas/37732761786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylivediamondinventory.com/uploads/files/68734399194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mundori.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83492773496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210921135850.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_off0000e019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE019 17892 bytes
SHA-256: f943582033fa17c17fe28eb3f311ba36b08d07f0151f525a928c417c2b3ca16a
font_01_sfnt_off00010e5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E5C 10916 bytes
SHA-256: f123981879ed4b63fe6984e513c002dc4b52eb1979dac320888a559280ea070c
font_02_sfnt_off0001273e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1273E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1