Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 296a5868012cf684…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-05-24 02:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: ad318ee2f45b11af4f8bdc6bb0aa79b3 SHA-1: 25e6043456039fe66efa93e100bd73b53a7877a0 SHA-256: 296a5868012cf684b03ba7647c3bf8841a831f11e93a605dad1308ac4e3cfcb1
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the high number of external links and the ML detection point to a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+role+perception+in+organizational+behavior PDF link annotation
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda476e402a228d760c136ddb25a6ed6/38190573814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c525d94e15c8e6a8fa9997ca24b78afe/54988693583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/xetumedutulavijenakefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b9e8438ca---26113281143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7uljdj3iorucollc317ik2e55q/57623709361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/93469222967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd53e82eebb2057807b16e60774d6dda/95081032866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/39275759168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc53f0953cb8bfd3c848fbcda01645ea/53113486177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/30075535154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740f8aadaa4---82639625063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a91c0b72fc---gejabofikomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082513c03819---gimogabatusuzipabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099deffe8a83---vabosige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2777b9f66ced28784c547d698c9efdf/60292179996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f29a48423---lifemesojuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be5bb936ce7b1b4fb6e4f7c4793ee4b5/44964488137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e67b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE67B 5456 bytes
SHA-256: bb15820cff6a04a30756dd1c4268e79d5d185912031790a6d3babf35288b7235
font_01_sfnt_off0000f91c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91C 9908 bytes
SHA-256: 477590604e0f0fad5b72db446649016040ede4105a5a050d8cbda3786e6d1c23