Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 004f73c03ecb71b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:48:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2268e6df7cfca1e8397349ee4ce1d5d2 SHA-1: a497e7a1061672146ddf77cb7b05197d2d9ab428 SHA-256: 004f73c03ecb71b2354caf0410d809ee7ddd8991b7d87feef60d810ca3147e53
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the presence of a link farm on potentially untrustworthy hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users, potentially to phishing sites or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/63088602696.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6t51j7rgu8352tl7gs8hrop86/30677185921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/retexirupukagopesevagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc011d417de---dewiwuvozurulifimupakedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0ae1d759615d9c37c5229eaaac5303f/fegunemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d508819e3f5---3547948927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021051006552235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/18490862166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/20462919594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/2106280637139441737s2m98vliy4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/rukojiwuvojifabujiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/wateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a301b26c132---96340296966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/3562969085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7906f538ff---warusebonekoresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dafe6d21a15d11e629d00d4e9ea94773/71659161913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0849249994---sukununadofusubonijoridol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jedeminute.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/luana9kns5aq8oio65fnt9bf2s/furavaletexonevowenogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30884fa24241f60657a1cc341ae954c8/nixojumezutunofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7b620c9c2---38040267941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06ba44daa9---wufanem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/41002729241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/59035729921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089dd887a406---94082816913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d80533138f85b26fb20f062285ba265/wiguzuwedowudepilezoluko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a343cbaa60d---kasiripudekiniwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=power+electronics+circuits+devices+and+applications+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_off0000d0c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C7 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 4c48af11c35a83a6fe9ea3ba25fee19405ba8f819306a6737282891098e16154
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001022c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1022C 17008 bytes
SHA-256: de8e368294abdf28b7d2b3a4f6e263c9f32949a44dfdae92725e6db548f1a3dc