Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 268e9d3541449e81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c8a115cfb317dca808e64b233b5d328c SHA-1: 8bebd6ba14a4d01ee9777ca49cfcd3dc239e79cd SHA-256: 268e9d3541449e81f6c460c7f06c66b970e81988a72563dc2d9b157b41ee3f44
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and heuristics identify the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as a lure to download further malicious content, potentially exploiting vulnerabilities in the PDF reader or redirecting users to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content to analyze.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083df64e0603---55629972720.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d765daf922dd52067dfe5f0566a4a58/47756799425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e80d2b14f7---65549315845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/vozaladajuditiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d2i24giel8q9a055gvb71stg/nulobimuzutugikozewulupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f28ed64fe1f762cad8f2dad8084e9dce/11428659025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/zikafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ac5e8ec08---52106921283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/reloxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/mivosegizizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificiopasticceriabattaglia.it/file/85663057427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ef2e065392da58f0b70d6d87f2c66f/75912995491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/pifibunosatexidofinipudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ef6873c42---95986923182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/32635796905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cb7767a4f21f42b7980b45ebfe2d280/63450910763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/54939452757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608711944bbdd---wigaxumuvos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/69219228305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/409b2ccbfaa49b1628776ec9e343763c/44555845145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ef4092b1d---40194773765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2aea4a2552---40926890361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/87303727291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbb3e5eaf7---xomulonadak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=spices+of+india+kitchenPDF 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_off00012af7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF7 18248 bytes
SHA-256: bb91bc1cf44a1c77f0bf98aaf4e023ef94cfa7be4a9958b7da29fa71e3e237c9
font_01_sfnt_off00015997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15997 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 7cf01cd6f0492d73bfa19e3c504a8b9a928295ac89211d20c56b2033cc77a013
font_02_sfnt_off0001723d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1723D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1