Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d7a62efecaf9d28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:31:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 12ae086593ba6bbe293a159186070292 SHA-1: f7baf0d6be13fa1fecdde5cbfd4aadcf1c06f3d1 SHA-256: 1d7a62efecaf9d28ef638917ad48a4d7385926e131e5d1e348e2cf95c24d4172
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e97e683322f3ab8909b3c46a24005f25/16962477794.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/risugusojisonurubizaviriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towa-aaa.jp/userfiles/file/16244779406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be6174a1f67ca87fa1d40e8fd3923622/famofuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/485a88b6528daa0d11d44a2be1195b25/7291555609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131e2d77a1fea38e20a470ef8a360666/32544502989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9d7ce8d62f758a7a359e0c6ee2e8090/71522317733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882961e6278---kakesasumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/58453064268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e924cf0192---tusapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfh-consulting.com/userfiles/file/69200703620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/rireboximapatitizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67b557fce8---82414212053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/797672543b8284f52774a0aa5c9d9647/wipuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46805477271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dq9r7rcalug6mueplpd3s0b19/77746240401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882d8e5b3fc---47831867258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841cca1d15b---zibururure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muskogeeroughers1967.com/clients/9/98/9899c641331876fb313f08ec475a0443/File/mazaramoneronanixizizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbc65edcade---72338653273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c254f90ee8f10fd618dac135747cc3e0/jivopokivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/nubonejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/232901195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=wow+shadowlands+fishing+spotsPDF 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_off0000f347.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF347 22956 bytes
SHA-256: e3e8ea5601d8de7aff1732fe15b35e1c177c19b268e3bbd999ab0c076495fb35
font_01_sfnt_off00012be6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE6 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 36392570eb9df908f2940c6d329d71c2b4eba3842bb34b3d714280af66315527
font_02_sfnt_off000143f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1