Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b92b8bce280dbbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-11 19:54:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b94d4d31952e49fcc983f98fb1ed1486 SHA-1: 133948c2072554844067fa81b5669431f80f107d SHA-256: 2b92b8bce280dbbb0f40e88969ca9ee49e44d4a8d64c2048bf325ac760aa580b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to direct users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised upload links is a significant indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbc67e15a61---41720541148.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://michianaorchidsociety.org/clients/2/28/2832e32407c795c8d28ffe68102aa18e/File/35391899140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drosamahetta.com/userfiles/file/fobonuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c019ce652b4f06b6009ff16a84c364f/48248692649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads//files/202108100724365315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0216eb9f5---13931373233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image//files/48594536940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc6a37eca57308ad03b5b1214f42c753/49372537695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/vifinoxetotena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859747ce345---18152834994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021060912273918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/gubezalurobikokawusefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/24323530718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3km55k5eu824k4ljctorcu28an/deviwifikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c37fcca47---26016066772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapevinewinerytrail.com/clients/876125/File/birigolanidogesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aafd9b6b1526ace2d7559c8200622658/jajaridulitafimegotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santaclara.com/wysiwygfiles/file/goxitezulusujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf499a34af---11980795985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/268d6d9be5d8999a7f3b9b435dea1452/54177651002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovodatar.hu/userfiles/file/33755932885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dujs3khvjllqcbqimo0tbln7b2/xofukudax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9fiig1olbp4rl9afrpjhcmjqs/lejixaxezasalagewixedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+audition+for+the+percy+jackson+series+disney+plusPDF 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_off0000e849.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE849 16692 bytes
SHA-256: 4236c93ec5effde9ebf05872015e7e0003643566e1b4802fb6b1b0ce60cc87ce
font_01_sfnt_off0001134d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134D 11232 bytes
SHA-256: b58b54b42cb8c923bc7395444c4e1a68566a85ee6c912160ab765bf77ba044b3
font_02_sfnt_off00012d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1