Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c11c568b9f2c311…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:23:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 05f71c070a893a9ecda29ae3a4877533 SHA-1: 72bff1a323de2259735080b987517ca949caceee SHA-256: 2c11c568b9f2c3116f829b356b1dd14608e6a69d3ca032bd9972feb023b3a7be
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's used to host or redirect to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the heuristic findings of a 'link farm' indicate a likely intent to direct users to external, potentially malicious, resources. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bc773e923---91795052479.pdf
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828340a2c62---gimadizarilojomupepure.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceec0f47641---vapipakelokob.pdf
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078976e57896---46504725206.pdf
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/83376354698.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b58e12908e7---80277187704.pdf
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/tilagegeseburewewuxenija.pdf
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/nonufemur.pdf
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/siwex.pdf
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/sunotob.pdf
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70073ef0792416a9e25e36fbbb876fbc/bavozalusefofela.pdf
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0068da839d---83750461399.pdf
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4dc21ed8bc---50373181937.pdf
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaviwimifobo.pdf
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/29417183902.pdf
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm83lr0fg4ooch93sh051c143p/59669734701.pdf
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/82665719339.pdf
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/1623780505587696709.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609494979828a---26955191069.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7d0b62a8d---60656309783.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847cd3b0109---81845303123.pdf
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/geviginosefeten.pdf
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/psa0upnatnp1brs0sss1lpc7f1/fokoweligumekoxuzes.pdf
    • https://toromecanicorodeo.com/files/92485679941.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=richland+county+oh+court+records
    • 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_off0000fee7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000116f9.bin
c65cd5d55c9331f756cf91ee02231d8f2deb47521e4b94a0bb132bc99670c1f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F9 17084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014360.bin
0528501012b84fe6ee867c16d2586bf5100901ed442994e473aacea3290610ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14360 10724 bytes