Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 314acfb2272dea7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-07-24 07:01:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 45c56c0e9f93a6b7e4d2c8e8026bfd8d SHA-1: 9e6b8bb9a12c5c19ca87c18923b29d76a4e7a945 SHA-256: 314acfb2272dea7d2ed8b2c03d875021bd0ca2da0ddf68c5ba2943521c5cbd0f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document functions as a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload storage further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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.firengo.com/userfiles/files/kefatewunulimasazoni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/98201805463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f79dba1801b---tudiluraterudopivozidewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57750414817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/bukutuzixunuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb2efbe9a9a30dcdb012e34d4476fb2/pigusirenabivibutopopolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f85d55b90a0---26450951285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d98fb4f2c---19723308514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecole-anglais.com/upload/files/87752663141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091232533ee6---15891190149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/84201916457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaf35b67fa12f34cee37ba32f36d8eaf/kafodofolelavewipisoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93748980735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769a3ed50b5---kujukosuwetiwoxezamuxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/wunofunevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/lunavuwevasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501004741651753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f5d1643a7892667ad85ffcc81e87a0a/94053036401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9b94704813---66471175779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2pnmoh23cdpt91ulotcc1j7pf2/33748259079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbf0c3c933---lobububezanaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/71013612642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/nukalurakaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e054b79e1---66573750711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c7e37cae0---20270278448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1d06985f316a30ad21b08bc09bddc03/24233347651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c1f1e8881---velutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+cenci+artaud+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_off0000c7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D9 10444 bytes
SHA-256: f0e0ac5140cd9808bfa3ea7400630f1263e5c58c7e612241b1bad85ab460f59c
font_01_sfnt_off0000df70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF70 16172 bytes
SHA-256: 4ce117ccba12234d7e86f470b1ebc365ccb60e7c7c510fbc4d68856be7684402
font_02_sfnt_off00010953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10953 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1