Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e00ad78e6a2c71b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.2 KB Created: 2021-08-01 09:36:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 7167eeae4734ff697efe35a337cf5fc3 SHA-1: 0629011950924f4cd97fed8002bee47741a0282a SHA-256: 1e00ad78e6a2c71b5dfbbc577418c61302ffcb86003a5c3fdba2c42e313ed933
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern is the distribution of links to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca4afa5c92b3e743687b6fffb811896/23502569795.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kd1bmuk4jremhkogug3n5k50dt/88164430761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73036751406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75.com/clients/46937/File/25472300337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt5o0bhq9c0f5llloo0f9blnc0/xibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/jafop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushigonewildtogo.com/uploads/files/59423662402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/poxurameji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f7d755cb8---6293321075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55f5edf6768e38084cf4a94a86108380/54807360219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86d5c530ff---24663781232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/vadex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c58102b43d---19175556473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083953c6b6b3---panegadine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105b70e8ce17---pomoxuninozuzamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpp9k07gs700m2c3cf4f0ks4nq/46936863402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210628010612149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d33d0dd5d58---28921688564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b77382c570ec7002b0c2a37a18df095/jelowuxamovoteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2e6d34266---kajadikudomuxitibiben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///20210619262_636508768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/fudozidapemufeselukebulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c94fcced707633011975faf4b1fc6a75/bilalezomosumuxakufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f65fd2385---goxumolaragovuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/xesub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+water+out+of+keurig+model+k40PDF 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_off00012fbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000147cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147CD 19308 bytes
SHA-256: 797914e8ea98a412006eeec7a8aa139667f6a0122480fbe685f3832224b22817
font_02_sfnt_off000179a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179A1 10892 bytes
SHA-256: a089dd828594494cd6093b1b11c34f17e3b6a754036ca1e2f717721e4008e163