Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 212c87bf5952d2dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:18:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: be006f5db0681314467c66d228e78dfd SHA-1: a09bc4ae50a85799b0a60f1cdea069dc77ecd319 SHA-256: 212c87bf5952d2dc4e2901801c4c4a6d554381cce99018434fb40cb668396d53
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://lighthouseofworship.com/clients/44803/File/64199844591.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb374a6b53---62821690824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ea564a5b8---83164994832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ecbf40717b30ee1dfa87d948f00b5a/rizilipafusulixuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/76174183546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c987c5dd01---muvira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb6c9effdf---45964497763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770436196f2---87164337742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd80ea9df1---96546311295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/towuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/89070503311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9668a164c357e5bc8d0fbe94a362d36/wupusawemobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/40424400157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/dogifazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da29d23eb2---31919166994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/mesodekibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504082442833675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/977tg6e0ipqasp8b7csp3bi6kb/56788646348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a974f886b7---tudorulobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9daad586c---wovofapusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e671acedf5---renukaligavizulogijelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44437f0b3a53d041dd508b14167b2e62/xudekosoberuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8bb4ec4afb---36953857797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4d98abc1c---50372136111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wardwrightself.com/clients/863644/File/lijovinuniwabimupezozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=common+bacterial+infectionsPDF 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_off0000f92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001113d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113D 16656 bytes
SHA-256: 44efa9b93110e00877d6b5f6a91cb3a48aa75d7e132299ac4054d7f64026b6b2
font_02_sfnt_off00013c5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C5D 10668 bytes
SHA-256: e2e974b3f479f095da760df12807f039eea39f5f3456731bf93073ec1a5d3afa