Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3eaf2cacb0e63346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:41:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3fcac6248db3fb1cc6fbfdf351d69625 SHA-1: e79f201e07411a60997d2238bc1a2fd3bfd3200c SHA-256: 3eaf2cacb0e63346cd22ae2005d4c8038b69d8cd6e40cb17ab137d3b73ef9251
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that redirect to other websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links points to a distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quality+management+in+hospitals+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c74b71c7a3---badogamalirobatage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/32788283371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/10214836289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078822a3304e---96363338939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075272696401---80553572010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a283c338c3a---zelinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081af2c4e0ba---11318860103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents//files/povamiwipanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5uh496j2suttd6j3bmr6qcnid/56262455784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021062174912_1040137315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ortodonciaelisafarache.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31413364628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210515143544_cl5zpb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/kevunurazize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/wokuvelesunonilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5535bb5be42089aae3a9fba9aec333/29319258185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/75433224882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/40927059347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/1819198144.pdfIn 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://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_off0000eb91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A3 16532 bytes
SHA-256: d93b7d8ada9033c569693292607ca25de7455370b3de49bc025ea1fa2999496b
font_02_sfnt_off00012e53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E53 11116 bytes
SHA-256: a27adc8ed62811f1968afd993150a57562badebc531775a3f87d592c4a0c8785