Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 034ac7cd2162912e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:51:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9998d60b8d020519917af95fc2b421a8 SHA-1: 81730c9ad9693693f774289fc432a56665b42489 SHA-256: 034ac7cd2162912ea5c8af53ac524eaf8b07744974d27e190ad1717c323d00b4
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment that it is used for malicious redirection. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117cee45a9e5---24668524343.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lapakunited.com/contents/files/pokofosuxovoguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d95591b617e---suxolukosekug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210612194749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hmh.sk/files/articles/file/38244632886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ddc93f57ddf1dc182c9292b1aa14142/60809960788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d83509866259b7f73eb113c5efaeb72/jinuxelexudevobujozedigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19j8ejdk33oraj78rfglva5lo2/97017762066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdn10.cz/files/file/72181721934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/231802302806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210620095232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860ed0399c4---zadudad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f27e6f489f8964012fea00036ce58a0/rumazijezufanomitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7d478e6b66b713ae48432f1dfbf1389/28993161535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainesclassof1980.com/clients/3/31/314d3ac3c31ee16cfc8f78d457af0ebc/File/23321959440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uj8v42vcibtjhb0gpgubh27k10/ninegikefasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwessex.com/uploads/files/67537273663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://museeducuir.org/upload/files/tixurejesujudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26300598255d36c39f6007fefebdac40/vepokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3f7b2c8ca---44405379228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/ledenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4fcb77adb8---kogilurorememumexuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/reoula3opb62i5sm1f31oovck3/61586044955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090be1c039ba---84056673861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b4ea1239d3---gofotefef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2bfd227dd82fe9608df7e3a5c2aac68/sazusenolexetuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+trading+forex+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_off0000e8ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CE 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 8c62d1b839b75e319c863be4cc986c9f094681337e88cb19069666cf2fc11b1e
font_01_sfnt_off000116e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012efc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EFC 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 1a739dcd00a4f4ca1cfe5b58cfaaa1cabb2d3d0dfeb0a090ede85ea2b3e30535