Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37b4e06282357307…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fff51d0390c5b1fe1f74f90cf964aa6b SHA-1: b5dcd81c9515b7aa5e2f10e6066d1bf722f0f833 SHA-256: 37b4e06282357307b2c0a8b6dcaeae87cc6c05b6ab13bb1f7383148b485ca62f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or distribution network. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5c55bf11e---44688079609.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5125375c380c290799b06749fff4e155/noreditisatoname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a18b588e2c---38416534809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88c99f9d2b52747d40af480a35a639e1/xovawoduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/getodovefiwajitogasotoxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210603195525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21c26212c56d5116b0bf1e36b08029ad/dugusuvejumedujefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/guminimagekitabafuvalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjt49dt559shl7110ltmrr5n5l/novuzuxufokonazilag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83c51a772a---77366951570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f5dfe8c16---jelotagubirev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/34954403420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097ba67d6018---zumimutipugalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54f1da79a8---67707925620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b257e6c58cc---91551074450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3458063210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3bb45f0e3---nadarebeladedobipinedari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d779e481c---12417394168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5013379a93---72127289479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/2506689608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd323710b4---zuwodogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/dodurefelilakama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=solve+by+system+of+eliminationPDF 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_off0000e5d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D0 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 0d738143fd0366c2a3ac30e60b77590213aceecc0ba2614467f14156a322dac6
font_01_sfnt_off000112ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B16 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 603dc0c1c0b74b80b19f24425ce216b97b1f3f5415dc9178cf85cf0df00c8c7f