Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ed40296c7c00dad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 05:14:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 33f8bb3a630f6fa5d700485cf980252b SHA-1: 7c4344e5b07de7a8be4ace5093306d4051bd6abd SHA-256: 3ed40296c7c00dad5977b2998c99bd10112d162cb4f600b598dbba431e3ae5af
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the structure suggests the document is designed to lure users to external malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/210722231002759564pfctf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be289c75f97---tekoniwijunasemisujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d26bf05385a---fivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b098681b5c---82876902446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/87111669486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnovini.bg/root/f/uploads/files/84489163434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/61789119379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/87130997004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/76619895272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799479177a5---90359459874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/71358000549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d3c864e504611767fc6afaa6b718b3/45109270634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aueqmfip2caue77chcgrnk4he/6010266427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e163d6f3c3---loxijapuvegaxiluzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/52263860015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/84798745122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju8biol6l6vpm1n3umilnuimk0/lesevajafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac023450046---supebekaxiwakaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ec255a0add---fovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/zanegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=renunciation+of+inheritance+form+new+yorkPDF 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_off0000f4d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D6 16712 bytes
SHA-256: f5ead8e22f0378ef5c3eb26754f36e3897b518300641065ed1d6a602707ea36e
font_01_sfnt_off00012047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12047 10824 bytes
SHA-256: c62c49f1aa74f71ebb2dae5889e89bded542d28a71f37ac72a7eacf82892a762
font_02_sfnt_off00013934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13934 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1