Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11d126188fdea38a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-07-17 01:12:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 306a37ca802cf0843a7ad1ec41a64db9 SHA-1: d89443e082afda97703ecbcfd8887a37b7cffe43 SHA-256: 11d126188fdea38a94f183584886f389f8beacc4d1cb9403759ff59e9c4f68f4
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, specifically pointing to PDF files within form upload directories. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic, potentially used to distribute further malicious content or manipulate search results. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9785

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://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d40d8daa9e---xifuwagafexifajafe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/53945076735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beedb6c526d---binabetarotixomega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7be63f128328ed5842c2d9a56cda7ebf/75258939073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/73926111595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/70949049923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f141824a586---malolalige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ja3v7si0vq8vut1g9euh7m4sn4/3911567188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nst7m3f6qtd59sc53s6von5pcr/67681076078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2518a8040a5551892db8336675779253/buzomavomokesuzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/bulonulunowopisogogebawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/woxivumetadojudalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d65cd972cbe---zafelajelaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d69c8ba8b01---21626675147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d41476772---95962897460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/60057547145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/tenosefebuxivozatabali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f53765369---pafabonabuzawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc3b74e9c1ff7bbb04a58a7aeae8e0a4/tubukujagegixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovehikari.com/uploads/files/muxugogejujibuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhh7tc5d1hbjeb7oeaep4o2rd1/xajajasese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vs4caiedkvsmi6rbphnofhdc6/44412537904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ba5a5cb01---27374901026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/10030371375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61f83b18d5fbfff178029323921b7d7e/kinosozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pso2+how+to+craft+weaponsPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE836 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 0b80fb03464529de931c98024398fe9f3e75fc23fce4e4a5fb7c92a4ae65711b
font_01_sfnt_off000100b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B0 9136 bytes
SHA-256: f086948eba5e64ce5b9323bbd99a37f89494649f107752988f61e24abd55f8fa
font_02_sfnt_off00011f23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F23 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 7eda2fa323b31350ff3dbf34e7feadae902250a2465d8e4577e745e1c81ad64b
font_03_sfnt_off00014c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C7B 16336 bytes
SHA-256: 10d856ac87ff33fb16d4dce85afef1c4e500528c95628e5c574840d94e0ec656
font_04_sfnt_off000162a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1