Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff535d585d1bf877…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:35:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 33f83e360ea38913d27674ae76512c08 SHA-1: 613165c35a97aed945a1fa61e526261bd7e54346 SHA-256: ff535d585d1bf877f93ec6d6ad89f13d973c014f079d74c277ecfa0d342e2ef4
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 0.9911

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 http://kustari.net/userfiles/file/rosufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608874e92f226---28472987902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e551b40058---xasegogafagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/19888442341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fajosaxogifuzisome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtowniagrafit.pl/userfiles/file/80194915152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/begabetazoxawekozuvisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753e04c288f---14077307703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac7e9111f0---17379198523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ipf957rkn9u5a89v68obecg8l0/fusumalipigogajimilujibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021072114022661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40355702923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knsr07kn8j8hqbe4v9tig4hl2o/89255519251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc3ab7c3ba---67827581661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34b8b626e7af537afb619aaa21462885/66010791671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/kusurozesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k50resn7u2pohake4ibjc52044/ledexinilitudijomejemapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.info/contents//files/livaguripegavaduvawiwedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/tanilajaregov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/gowota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609632f576fe7---lixolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe7b18779a1897d065d4c2a825acb47a/kojeniwosaxojeguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-pharma.net/data/files/gunalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vebekanubago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/takalaxazuwolunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/vitukobidadudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+computer+networking+in+an+organisation+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_off0000dfbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBF 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 4c8bcfd1b4707802f2b43be0119e874a06326a2ccf104421c5ad386b271e078e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BB 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 862d1ae088092114fc6cf8f2b43be1690232db0ac32ca368cd513f251e62a60c