Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c4b04949fae159a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-08-19 16:35:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c7147c74f0a11593902f0632a64b9aa7 SHA-1: 0e5f046c0ba0fa77aceb7439834648f5f99ec675 SHA-256: 2c4b04949fae159a8358001fbe18b44fcf968d1af642f00da37710de3d42492f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, directing users to download files that are likely malicious. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination by using numerous distinct hosts and potentially disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious, suggesting it is designed to deliver a secondary payload.

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 https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73fe7232ff0285f692884801c649ea5e/wavirasoliriruvota.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agaa2anfqdp.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riraxejitidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de1394eedb---51634579158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917a6b7eb28---14287957359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e64afc9cf28---98687944097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609834b570ef5---74643457594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/kevopewifatif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7q0eno9ltci27lbpi1nl0b77m/nugagitepijuxiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapromosyon.com/calisma2/files/uploads/44105467225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/262b457d92c379eb8618d5992ff27487/vovifidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/20357134788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ocfcdl5tcuf0ve11as5roabc5/13800821061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d3195c020397866243fd4296828ab12/todadibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65604485120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xibumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16088968535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09302u8r98vi5annurri3b45mn/71020847659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/vogupusibasovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r05643sbo2298gv2mjvtlqealh/90822045472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hefcom-hydraulics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9791042025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents//files/56436566452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/94684367648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/35811551483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=windows+10+version+1809+language+pack+downloadPDF 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_off0000d85d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD85D 11476 bytes
SHA-256: 59f99e4976779104c3a2f5b0e9b109d979dac73e57014db497794d2a16d3b56d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF385 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B97 16048 bytes
SHA-256: 90c7fe5228a332767532927386422c632c5b605411829dd285cad0e16d6a4668