Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32adca51b064aa92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:43:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a31c7a50438dc226060826f28c60711d SHA-1: 8c5ebeda16a599fbe84b24b7c3023c98bd1d7995 SHA-256: 32adca51b064aa92b1cd7b3904cbae3f1e413a37c7ec940cbfe7c206579f3daa
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads, supports this. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to malicious payloads.

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 http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764193a9ac5---manugejakotesube.pdf
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f27afaa942---47758840701.pdf
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40fr4hr1uqdm4pu79m0ajprng2/xelukomevozit.pdf
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b4c23e7fc---juvuworewilagomaja.pdf
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c61b63b546d437af7eeb4424b71f1ba/59867031634.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb722e8895f---94239618241.pdf
    • http://1parareunion-club.com/clients/4/48/482fc251494624b09083a87f212a12d7/File/nusutesavimevuvup.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/650fd557eb857fd93602b64cb5e8aa0c/8346567271.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc7628fda3005f5758b05bffa3e6f96/vewudido.pdf
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bugupigosuliju.pdf
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f91de9a5bd4b3b9f711867adc12ab28d/25179175141.pdf
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/90347356517.pdf
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/65197294319.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984fcfb32dc---14447761415.pdf
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ikb28ev9j9r3acka7pe1i18nl/10499076088.pdf
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105152236.pdf
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9088e39a297a57abe976431d73324ce3/jexilelumaju.pdf
    • http://yorktownhs1987.com/clients/57482/File/15099544874.pdf
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a991aab18e6---62058234992.pdf
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba090786563164fddec9d747300c67b/38811206505.pdf
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/86246661979.pdf
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099780a4457c---wipepimupazisosipibusu.pdf
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb19c35b0f---48765527663.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092247d0b217---xuded.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=the+bible+is+black+history+free+pdf
    • 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_off00011a02.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A02 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013214.bin
c609b3e0f7521af16c2472866a676e43e867608b0e7ddfd5933c406fa6bb74af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13214 17516 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015fe4.bin
dfadca38090af0e47bb9beccccae2771ef9ec944ec8d3826afcbd3e851d112a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FE4 10920 bytes