Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18bf8990586a76b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:00:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 57504324562c5bbb30d0bd42a8385245 SHA-1: 275f88a12c4f73b4efca71d0541aa6fd26390d2d SHA-256: 18bf8990586a76b253cad6846ebf2a9fea3cac38edc113fb43eb33f2e8527a30
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO poisoning or malicious redirection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/16156997456.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/vibovorulezododozuwamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072892f9db70---povomabapagidimetidejeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0ef4c130dc1c5da498cd4d9416b16d9/bibipama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607631ae75e9f---28122271901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/43425299738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd495a6a763531f460e914efb81fd9d0/wobixuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78a8bf3588ee9d52d8915a29ad62c0b4/34553971581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66n8rvvcokm92e59ep248q5lp4/wekiwanorajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/34711625938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-kajihan.net/js/upload/files/giduneretinefowanibus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/refeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1d966ed44---50346404745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bc3b719dc---rekorasovasalexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/vejisupofepekegarenesige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/pajeturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ekis6tqrfmgkqs44mmoqko2kh/jimisilekemulomimaleli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c92d6b1cb9fe0299faeb8dd4854a2e7/741974208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085003fbc8e6---10844806110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/gulifukuxenajazipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36c36484e1b60609be4806d79cb20285/72091227393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a21b31d5af---xawupudofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26bcvl5ufgg7n817desokrbvs3/22338035861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/89540059716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/sediju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=brill+the+bombshellPDF 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_off0000cb52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB52 10300 bytes
SHA-256: fb927b8ac2c4609a0c1b4e602016a6c9bdc78e42073dc23cba6acaecc45c9a02
font_01_sfnt_off0000e281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE281 16996 bytes
SHA-256: 47793f5f3b0c510a9b27f8501c159c8045d9848eef1e6efb24d5ee9c97cc6a7e
font_02_sfnt_off00010e85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1