Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2de6d95683be68a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:49:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fb61eede770e56db51d223139426af24 SHA-1: ceb14815f906e0fa4cfc8666898492dde69a8026 SHA-256: 2de6d95683be68a357b684c94b32bf9cb71987c7d884186c8b0d89f1141bc633
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b81654f68---24831894.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504140026523631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sea-cruise.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/papatokujise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fad8b0476---91870836119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b81543590---5487117909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2990d76e23482d83a1b2705b428579a7/20717436212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/62651625890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b6ee30abb6361cc716b9f8b9fd249c/sazogumijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832f4e9df7d---ridudukukapesarivat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae6b8d1e8c48c09182a8478418256c9d/kexizavukulugidanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0029877a21a7c978fa1f19e77929ed0/8724548735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/588051464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1373fc05be74bae68544be73699b111/99857785947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93fb2d790c91d32ebc73d05b07b8196f/83113096938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e37d5cc5d0---61352257629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/wevijasijagitinuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05d1bad45c---39570932379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/sugijigixironuvajobenefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11754eadc4---45482013967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983877b7011---74661310885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6937e778260120ea4bb341506a59b1a7/75516997038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfhs1978reunion.com/clients/56625/File/3313706976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/59896678741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fd9238f32---53293942962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=physical+map+of+africa+with+rivers+and+mountains+and+deserts+pdfPDF 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_off0000f9b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000111cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CB 11252 bytes
SHA-256: cdbfd88ec3f0327056a76c2143d7bde093745c2145cb211cce33cd5abc3442c5
font_02_sfnt_off00012c15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C15 18056 bytes
SHA-256: c69b22f8009841057e7ddccfa34c7be7b81e508af4a077640224201973525457