Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f40ece938c4c517…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:58:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ca9d2e1b6266030a53ba1e740ee688d0 SHA-1: 30e15d48667b03b01538aa7136a1dc842376f07b SHA-256: 2f40ece938c4c5178d14ae9a3e9d3d93958484263d30a2334b914415fc75d80f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF sample was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious and contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS installations. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for direct user interaction but rather to serve as a redirector. The presence of multiple links to potentially malicious content indicates a campaign aimed at distributing further malware or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778cf9bd0cb---kufogovuxevamerimex.pdf
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/lifegumamef.pdf
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/1980412050.pdf
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/pomuroduzifewinexutipeti.pdf
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5d0fb86466c0568da5a14cbadc8af8d/5144981766.pdf
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju1huf170lbq5jjs4r9gr15occ/sagixivutamorubu.pdf
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057f26980bef0bb31236314634c750b0/xiloxejavajupavewi.pdf
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e41a377c80---62750021430.pdf
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/14461389334.pdf
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d61f9e77f5---defelesuwojitoxiduluwidi.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02a988e9ec33b964933fd997043b0a39/rudimanojufafov.pdf
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6799348a58---birexobaxaluputizimulijo.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa558bf0fabfbd2c9dcda2ef3d9d9ea/lirazezuradasar.pdf
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/48091028097.pdf
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/83848531786.pdf
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/niwibe.pdf
    • http://heibldr.hu/FCKfeltoltott/file/2695699351.pdf
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944f8c0bf57---xojedenu.pdf
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/fakumupesog.pdf
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/nitikukapijogutapalazikel.pdf
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0cdnivc7seor23krcqassh4c4/21730387890.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3e45d62cf---zixukipak.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a910a3408f5---kutizuwegatisokowejas.pdf
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ketosuxepazoboxusanuw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=which+wp+theme
    • 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_off00011e49.bin
8871746db55dd367e258a794f245e110988b15a7f7951301e2da66944f031b64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E49 10016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013490.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13490 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014ca2.bin
ae56a6e9ab33604ce25950c167a3aca06a9736d0f25cfcce86af9602348bc1f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CA2 17092 bytes