Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe03de67299fe940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-08-29 15:24:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 62d6bbcd4f97e35310b73ae71106b65e SHA-1: eae4d78ea7a7b4b485754ef884c7df622383da1a SHA-256: fe03de67299fe9403dcd96546816e40b9fc3a74735f8c148692e746525748f23
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple disposable or compromised hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage compromised infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure points towards a downloader or redirector pattern.

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 http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nazemikokimogavakofapu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/lewerafupimiwumoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/zosakotetamarogezulipakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3e40853f67---57353506753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608666315b4f2---83076267771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/94030933467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomei4x4.jp/js/upload/files/xajupimowodonamujivizen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/penejugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/veputizenulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e04a2d10df40998991c032a311adc5a3/gexobegoraxukuwidudifesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/bewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manchetenewsms.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97156292922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/fujonikudeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xelumekisojabumuwopomuxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/girofawesotazigojizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/78409755383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/pewosepifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/zapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/jinuwosegajijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solidpractise.com/files/userfiles/file/12336646110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/19332314040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/rawalezuxezaxubapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/sasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/dowozulifigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=simple+present+rules+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_off0000b91a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB91A 15244 bytes
SHA-256: 84887b1ca980757854befb707a9d7fb5d4f2abeed3785ca248f05221588267a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB2 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 36e65ec21a81e93c1671aaa43bfa0d76d62c304be6e129d66f1b217f6a3e69a0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1