Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 114760c4781a24d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: da1f5d01f22adcc6aacb2ef522bb63df SHA-1: 1cdadc512645d386f0a21741f1ac49c4b3e4bb30 SHA-256: 114760c4781a24d4a451716ba322e8ebbb568273b8448c3ad1684f1b72cc288e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supported by heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These sites host PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage attack or a method to obscure the true destination. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads, indicates a deliberate effort to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8fdb46049e01085ce6f0a82db8bfaf4/vutetotasubexiro.pdf
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01b711d335---salazijuki.pdf
    • http://chineseclothingonline.net/File/kudufanebanoxijumosepa.pdf
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/48564976104.pdf
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3f83b91cdc697f572a2342364c9f2c5/72199777513.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p96ehv32ttrkhqe7gg05kv4e50/jidepagupuwavonofozujajiz.pdf
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7e310c2be---zejozinaladetemisob.pdf
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfacd6c722---poviduvagijomizidedobume.pdf
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/50696782253.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c100936075a---2579077348.pdf
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/18466477982.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1371b2c90---53187882742.pdf
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607143d0d5aca---bagevira.pdf
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cddbb02391---89610227463.pdf
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/75835729240.pdf
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb9cb02cf3b35b6762dbdcc8d05ad353/juvexixub.pdf
    • http://clinicaveterinariacene.com/userfiles/files/9442853107.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4e6df0056---futobovita.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=easy+japanese+hairstyles
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3b0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010bc2.bin
d2385edfd60db63771b6a7986701b81c6ea7fe53984b4fff1f00375e78e488e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC2 17400 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000138cd.bin
8482653baee0a8c75ff1e8b5e5c8022dffcad369534c5e843eaf072ae91c23fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138CD 10456 bytes