Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0750e928346d632c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:44:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 646f0a55c1cf19c682b9b8ee8ee3d5ea SHA-1: ea365e1ced7d9a046bd60deda8dd0a9c8823b17e SHA-256: 0750e928346d632cb84798d84d7966f13d2e38749bd6d9cc675772127697efff
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous embedded URLs suggest the primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbkjj4v6dhkodmji1jvklgjnn2/44133894676.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/339526ad5a8fe8b7c524b739020e28ef/1013732879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08guhsmoruplfg1fejffhe4bbv/rusavijunuribemibivujewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/46795980618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41cb153c95---58083279842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/wajojatovotovofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uefek8l36pv81ms4hfgahs2g75/29844895288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/42067495550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/bagobigadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2e1c79703d8e2d04fca108df13c35ca/piranigafivasuregujazupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b73049844---20493373617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hl9j8dnkascla70qa7534q065u/74029327864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/xobagopitovuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd1443389cbba020b4b6162486d54736/reziwawumevonapituvuxusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799c89e5523---sijixatuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/nokoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/803f75ead2805fe7cd6b403a382c492b/44936289796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/628b53fabcee37de347c770b3ef1bacd/94909866774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083287784d73---nusazenumaladevuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608593dd7249a---rubiluredazusijelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86c7f59980---6307400977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed46b3e3fc43b3ab6e3acc048aedbd6f/63499228467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdf8aa5c2e---62333634119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=second+chances+1998+full+moviePDF 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_off0000c4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4F8 16872 bytes
SHA-256: ec4d126415a064fa41ec6d6cbdf2847619786286afbea4da344998ab1a150581
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B2 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 32443a89857458459929a5888e88a5fe992800dcb9d2ae05624b601df6377970
font_02_sfnt_off00010acc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1