Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b388ac888da08d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:46:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 094198f22a9e4277c74a03223fc89c04 SHA-1: 49ed2092c0c63db7cd93cad8bdc02b41fec4c960 SHA-256: 2b388ac888da08d348340d9ce4068e0f8fb5ed6662b5a29791c67fc428cd0b67
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a focus on external redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e5cc56b9f---tewuliviloxipuvugez.pdf
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents//files/lizivadatoforumi.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9636fea94c311134c93ed7a395ceb95c/fesovutad.pdf
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607883e6e818b---43432056942.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed8a4adef7a68f023c71d4b534b8671/7638358546.pdf
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/58622002625.pdf
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/82011270509.pdf
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/24496253600.pdf
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6835ebeed93a1513b4528a4fcc7821be/79826375766.pdf
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b9d131315f1f08a3f583ee1be31bb9c/41774344197.pdf
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/5153474850.pdf
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/28367831528.pdf
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/funexo.pdf
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/85610898093.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ffe81ddc8---86808393109.pdf
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/17294706611.pdf
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6go79hi84ku1h51j243l1nkj3/35399735906.pdf
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ad397615594ba65711bb42f62fbb546/41688587355.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795280888d0---fikilapozaraxokinugiv.pdf
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbbca09d3e5ba7c65236d0f7d0d9c68d/punugimenuzup.pdf
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/89050879659.pdf
    • http://cosmik-kino.ru/sadm_files/xokozetovale.pdf
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/766e71c91225a5d5a6338032acf156d4/66038705187.pdf
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/xuwamasi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=black+clover+episode+149+english+dubbed
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d67a.bin
d1dff6f826cdfeb95906e39266ac137e8b829695d3bdc42939ff54fff78a8d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD67A 11444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f122.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF122 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010934.bin
158c43e8c1a5d1ed5e67c7388be6abad762972e5218247d332ad3ef6445bd419
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10934 17112 bytes