Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0060f809e4968a3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:56:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 59b161e37bac7263abc4d238e2a58d79 SHA-1: fc2a9dd77b362da5eb98809f3f2cbca8a04d4cbb SHA-256: 0060f809e4968a3f89cf4dc9cb7e07a3f50ba1ff5fbba9f4619a919437019184
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links suggests a drive-by download or phishing attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the structure of the PDF and the nature of the URLs indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094761e08125---73850310642.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce2cdc76f5---13312947491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/lazinapagefiboxifex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/75477469909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d40eda61f1b---42895397691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/57181874661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e18058798fdf9bfa959453950788f78/85699220935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rcni2bnvc9qkoiaeqomopnqpe/wiwazuvugekefiwotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9soihtoreugegifk4okk3mho05/59977747720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///xezojefafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2dd6ae0e8---28550291628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210531_CDBCE1ED84D28200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8c0a7e67b---14040466448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/6943180168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210514/21051406020088974902fymwd5yp0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57517905500cdfe83a0f6b40c90d6dac/demudogezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimaletto.com/uploads/file/wizovowoligaxigugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn7kp7fbi8f4ad7l8ocpaomr5f/39403401730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/wezejafupuninafokujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/jikirefudunukapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/subisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1588a00b468021b4eafc90a188d475b3/sexuzeluxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4n8b0htbgtbhqi75ov9v77gesj/xekowigedaliregobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+scale+on+mapPDF 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_off0000f099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF099 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 039d4ef45b128c69e8c08e0adc653a6d6363e5b4de0f91a74e869b9e0367ac1d
font_01_sfnt_off00011de9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13600 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 855ecb2ef77df5a2e385a62401ff67c1281bfe922f5ca98e77510f7cd60b6a7e