Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 230223bce48ddd52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:48:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6e45d7443d3a948aadb0f3fac5c8f15f SHA-1: 0a3c0910f18e2f7df19ca3d6d6c2110dd2ebf2da SHA-256: 230223bce48ddd525b8b680106230a14ec926aa0b1e3b3b98819a36f660bf824
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to leverage these sites for malicious purposes, potentially for SEO poisoning or to host further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comparative+and+superlative+adjectives+games+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bc7505dac---18936568006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/tozobupitoxejarovipuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/77623105156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viadagio.be/userfiles/file/pematabawusuxoxuzixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinxedien.net/upload/files/19189811562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe7bf50cf6f---rofuferekagixezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5c2566a29a47e5ac901ba88b8fbdf8/61150459074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sidilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skl.deindrukdemo.nl/upload/files/25645042841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/lotokof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/35457338043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81d4df522de0b0699af4decc81059858/68956634827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/rulidalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/80678729699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/37867363872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/xinogedenuzoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/30969493747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhrdbekasi.com/webroot/userfiles/files/wivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f43f461c010---xunixavazakukekivuboged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed0a4bca57624b40d4b018a195f58a02/jupekesegez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/jixoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102d1ac0326d---67930135809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gs-metals.com/filespath/files/20210824133205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b292.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB292 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000caa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAA9 11288 bytes
SHA-256: b6167b495fcca7b5724272043388e843d2ac5864045631e55d49ec1cae2ae0eb
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F7 15020 bytes
SHA-256: 17a9df333ec98dfa05d3ef747dbda91d2ec036444c51f9fa8fae32db77cacc31