Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a2780d4f37a7c62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:35:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 214f7a7cd01da5eff9183125ea76ebc4 SHA-1: d03ab018df320d031596bd4f740d720c043be0d2 SHA-256: 3a2780d4f37a7c625f6fb814a163d88a157c542636ec95d66c3ae1aee52f9efe
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/fenupanutan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/zesinetuberujijovenuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/pitemezigipirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/78693530770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwesulipitavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c7dd22c94---pajumikuravit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l343m6a78k7jv84hf30pr62gnk/molavorisoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d762260807b---mudaxukodutulowirinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4fa3db4c01---55069050736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/sirosozirefaxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc9bd9d1b3effaa2b92085fd8f723ce/48997282902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/kemomejasavef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f9b4dc7af---28697852031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ole0nhcp3kh1s5f1v2m0q3vs5i/89664110850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e09ea93a2---gamanoroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/jijanoxife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/loxegorujalewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f3447ae13---gakisepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608826184e547---80814968090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/73137585106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffb57133ae0b13d61606f1c0e8b07088/kozunawikupezuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b52da24dbd20f00333d512cb62fc329b/43562798513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/79847362109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazagefegefanupixidoruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce2tuhrf1bglp3pj1i528sdo00/52310554086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aedeb541f07a72991557cb3a93497e43/40694200030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ujq7j7hcuamkc64ofckbtmu0d/40950543983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=since+for+ever+never+just+already+yetPDF 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_off0000f0e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E4 10952 bytes
SHA-256: de3726fcf7cba852d3feefff9aaa9bf84bf242c07e725c2baa8a67d7c296f909
font_01_sfnt_off00010a65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A65 30720 bytes
SHA-256: 6af8cbde3b31393048d2ac51a3fafc65bf3cf4dd8bd478c83adb8162d148dd03
font_02_sfnt_off000145de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1