Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0baeaee0543ca9c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 22:14:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b7bb09a39fa6cf424b7516e46c1e8323 SHA-1: 67eef2964d41302e60aa2c57600cb1f13842d131 SHA-256: 0baeaee0543ca9c39b079081e88605746004c722dff0c63a1b285840c9a06735
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The primary technique observed is the use of embedded links to external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+byproduct+of+dehydration+synthesis+is PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c284b1998ab---volojemigadidibepiwige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopcloud.cloud//ckfinder/userfiles/files/mizuwifikubasixes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbcfdb1c34c639c01410100b76dd93e8/97271774735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southwest66reunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6f8b7bd17d60304c359e527a2c43449/File/71892912684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8fe0d9f4d---litamubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609459a5ebacf---62105239592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fad9fe367f---digumoxekarosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/fovisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/gitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf7acd05a4---tusajojuwikupedijivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/87756773920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e5d2c113a9609ccee7f4017e73cdfbb/lumelamitatiniwogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/bejeleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frpqi3gj6e1d3caga4akqfdk51/65360082843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/79440136349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a2def087e---40783718661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ef3e55c68811bf5865d311eccd517e2/nizinonujawekitiluwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47b992cfa3---82998197884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c9b76dc26fa1f00b22b8e52bf5aba17/45719376673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a244385be87ebc1901e8fe8dd78e13f/38574622295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jur6msr5v5odev19ercptekai2/pomaduwovunijurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1131dc47811e65c2268bc5ba30cbe058/94866448110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52g9hq19jv4g6044m4kgu7kja0/febiwidivoviruxulilum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f4fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FA 16552 bytes
SHA-256: c97ccff6939b449e0262c763b65ac6704161dd8b9a11a95eac62df0d821b3d1f
font_01_sfnt_off00011fba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBA 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 5db1f58a3c2aaa2a87741a1a73d6788da10a5d061dba2d942273d6c7f950a116
font_02_sfnt_off00013910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13910 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1