Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e719854b4162a13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-06-14 03:42:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 92917fda27d4bb5a9e7d0b48d61b3ed4 SHA-1: d4ca3d3e8f4246bd5ef94a0ee9fde53cf55f8e53 SHA-256: 3e719854b4162a13d8049ad3e8c7aee0c9053ee45d854da0a901684a8b94b56f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites, potentially for SEO manipulation or to serve further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=examples+of+the+four+goals+of+psychology PDF link annotation
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1cjlnkr6cgm398qepg8e2vn70/wezazanozemokejisiwaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/najesowepadimisaseroworoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/541938bd15020e1af32b50f2575415b7/86979186052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/jedejatopeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d53dd87c49---karigulafitibekaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-techfiber.com/userfiles/file/2234060602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/017ad5def6c98483c91b05b2a0aa6eaf/zulofemusibujafodoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v29cg8f7oqoop60tsbg2h2jkrt/95903334613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjxfjc.com/uploadfiles/files/xusowusefebinumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/wedogidumosidititorezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08959a2c22658c0db4deb2675d6cfb73/tofinesipewuzudotiped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/anlhpl903208ru8b6ekbe4qu42/75572753874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2c96108ba---fidetaridulabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e2e4a8dec---lumokixusejudejimedetos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cc6e86074---10967199724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806e4d5a22c---89861646638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27945910a8725bc6b2147ee0e96f68bf/3153087266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb00001275---goxigikonoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eeda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDA 5284 bytes
SHA-256: b9ebaeb65a6a5bb43ad19941b81f19244f87a82b3f32b44a2c46392834277e70
font_01_sfnt_off000100f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F0 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 3cba41e8b41a10ac2f5e4fb7020e82d1de588aaa0ee1ffe1d2f4552d694bec7d
font_02_sfnt_off00012558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12558 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c