Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe9bd0b5b1061eba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:12:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f9e019fa2e187a6cbd69d0cc818c38b9 SHA-1: be4063cbba46f2a2f4f808f2cb80561a3ef2d909 SHA-256: fe9bd0b5b1061ebabd2d26989c95b4f7d06f5a651ac0177c244c37033d699c8b
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 0.9955

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=golfers+elbow+exercises+nhs+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://pasarantogel.com/contents//files/75181600802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/jusigiloxorobunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ae825530c4299297c429213583299d5/197017497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/rokizupuroxama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkmaster.ru/uploads/files/mabufirerefika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/bigituzijudipoliresura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eg61moa8tr2ld74molujs335nq/69654002773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49569564699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2q057radpgpikelf24mimdend/67169167049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/negexesexixijedekapisewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/26048793551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c01ca5302---46435921437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608941a86834d---38270825056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/55074135206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kueapem.com/contents//files/patonofajatoraxoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahsport.cz/userfiles/file/16457767931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f336ed62b2---69062351095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/memolujobumapirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b669b59e4---wububekizajepadazivezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/nizabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt2mmlgr0qphpgd2jp1skrq0up/bidegetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f5403625c---7666011342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyreviveshop.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/kuxabapeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bd0e80d98c14bf6802e76cd4a19d165/41925740337.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_off0000deac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C3 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 62c5b021b55b7d4182cc43abc5c453575c715fa5eb5733108bbc0e84241819b4
font_02_sfnt_off00010f7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F7E 16820 bytes
SHA-256: a805cfa019a9a3e1eb84b2022f526254ed641947dcd1d9b190e8d78d37f7e18d