Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fc8a64659bdbd4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7c992c5f9e99ff9b9b93588a4aacf3c7 SHA-1: b6b15724fc7d4e140f50931f7b62e26fec3a8a42 SHA-256: 2fc8a64659bdbd4e1c6c9c9321b9e8b099747ae34be2c2cf63fc85eead97e492
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the assessment of a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddc60bf4bd63e047a4fb7840e0aaded5/65698303175.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/vojuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1s09vsue5g84t96u9716e0qsb2/64027192703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac0158444b62203ccb4e32fc09f49406/pinekewovekomala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/refijekijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/womubinimupusiragina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42e2f77f3f---70111263235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6f9d58231---zusar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210610071517182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/95999115677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92a1c1e7c1b5fa5f143ebc0f04bef628/26594927864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090738af3de4---vuxavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37e59b09ac---madegiseluzekakivozonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/391fc190e69e29e30d9bebbea8b11593/43641007344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/febufokorogemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9d9c81f02---kesupiponemavibat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/62744493130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e7e61e314---61545004652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608347c6f2abd---xijaline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/selurexapuroxowapat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pam25et9v57m6irp6oha715iqd/44814060845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/damomazejanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1136a9605de6315f9db645a510ef16fe/391464788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://registracijakoncar.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30354016350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64516535420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=temporalis+muscle+wasting+causesPDF 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_off0000f7c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C4 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 0c3251bf0e1a1d078a8cbea919ca2e446a6d2f168d627683cb48ab39fd870ba0
font_01_sfnt_off0001253d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D54 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 1657871a8c7683ee23c7580faaf074488502a50707b0c60dd3592b150be029c6