Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1306582acf75a561…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:04:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c4f0ac8f21549aa612729b5235b2c93b SHA-1: a78d34147da15abcd9be1fa7560ed78031cfa6cd SHA-256: 1306582acf75a5611c92dad17721bfa05713b6fdcdbcee4b1eeb2db067d35664
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as hosting for other PDF files. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful content. The presence of compromised CMS upload links is a significant indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6432020d3e4d279f178e2ce73924b38f/zanidaluvalevasubanef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ashokarefrigeration.com/userfiles/file/pajowalefedegedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neza.cz/UserFiles/File/16397128985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilna-ya.com/_userfiles/file/84517275745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queenart.kr/userData/board/file/93357989991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rewitex.pl/userfiles/file/resodozifimunevuvisuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/8708588410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vicc.huh.hu/UserFiles/File/81547913704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvietnam.net/luutru/files/lisitivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d09320f866---sisuvinarogujawubaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/rulorosakozenopodazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/5247054108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuquiland.com/upload/files/newatib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/37285483041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptkas.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/kezogakigetuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/xilelidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339a978f4b9---vadaramarunogerozebezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holdemigny.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapogibavuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ughrb7enj15h4p00lsd45ullu6/fedegosupidupupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aumnat2car.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/65060326388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitaco.com/uploads/images/files/potevilaxumaginitabulemug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/68428044434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdi.vn/userfiles/file/11774565938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=audience+collective+noun+examplePDF 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_off000108ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108AC 20176 bytes
SHA-256: 703978e4cc334f53337e6bc701d609fccdf1490194eae6fd327cff146bb3df4a
font_01_sfnt_off00013c57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C57 10656 bytes
SHA-256: dacd63f20e68ea01318717397fddf4e29411748f3b2304965b34f8a3f1921b1b
font_02_sfnt_off000154c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1