Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a42b272eeb54457…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.6 KB Created: 2021-07-18 02:02:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e1d9252a39a457ad38720ec3f2d01037 SHA-1: 578720007e1dc776071dda05a256e9f7138c204c SHA-256: 1a42b272eeb54457ce26a98e3b6a102400ea713517a1e7bf244cfb9ef906ea2b
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

Heuristics 6

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/27581753001.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa6fmomni7lnucu2hqfakhfokt/webikakasigugofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekon.net/userfiles/file/belofedebukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b60ca819b2---nukokafo.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://xn--faade-mtal-p6a3a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56731355484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a8714c1c3efda2d3cdfb12cfaade4a5/kagajuwodikapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608d2d7da6669---pobuvenenuzixapegota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608012f86a3fd---18526535847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947d5f130fb---nuzexakodote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63611cad289321c99f5f867ddfbcf8a5/gudivakofijedejejotexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/95946731348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070beb5b3bd4---wunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/fuvapiwemomefabikilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/71425655573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqo2lp6s2hoal89b766p9hg9no/61118198961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/masijojaxegefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haciogullari.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/21118914664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1imgajc8f7niolk1ago3cq22me/27360000995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6162556362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806be767e33---sigeputisowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3009bf5c93ba99b09bc4f411bc578127/70696439058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aeeae532f413216e751f09f09f46991/xaboxazetejafaxutotasiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/36443721837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/391ad298c329eb669abd1424cde9491c/sifewoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=best+string+quartets+of+all+timePDF 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_off0001469a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1469A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015eac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EAC 17560 bytes
SHA-256: e601687d2258f29e1f131f0e7cad0cd8743f2ca7f4fa1fb1e3b2f7153ec995c4
font_02_sfnt_off00018afc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18AFC 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 5dcf6c2a4286f5c3da1949d9fbcdfb33f198a5f524cb001622894b9861d029b2