Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ed4203fe075e8bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-08-03 00:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2e56fb97fa9e1e973b33fe49abc5e45d SHA-1: 7bb66dbb5fc5068fa6610afc77e46b0386a0b04a SHA-256: 3ed4203fe075e8bc017c785b14103410aaca3eefde4e85d9ca719a7d53942b05
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to host and distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful files. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the download or execution of a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b626570d2ca---vakotomulavu.pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a1cea11c4---46875432213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2dkq0bi32hjjfu26jggcd63k0/tuvetaviwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7va53tilnqgveq3lr7h8gg4jrd/37837405033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911a65a8deb---bipiwaredalafurid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0bf8f4025---kunuletemetesapipimitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysidehigh65.com/clients/d/d0/d00d1ad1640c45b888f5e58ac216a5d1/File/44272536044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factory-01.com/js/upload/files/jupabovojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b3557b6e3---pogedavun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/63509427736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/74858057082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davisfolk.net/clients/1/1f/1f1070e31f35868a9a13f38ee7dc887f/File/vadolujolukasorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ece9d25407c15dec76ecd913a8747a/927417122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lvfvegcfqh6des4rco9pii493/kitixibewoporit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/fudofusanowilatedodoxotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ada4688bf4---7589887032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blbr365.com/userfiles/file/1626673313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb43a9cc6cb---sotisebenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b651686f0ba3aa98ed1533c719840831/12280917177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e95735603---83656677588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/54785302424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c70d48eb19ff2acb3ace748842c007b/60750367007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/up8uor86pshki133q09mdd45rc/61333064046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-klass.ru/i/upload/files/meveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=hillsborough+county+school+calendar+2021PDF 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_off0000db36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB36 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 7241d2d11f07cba82f3143d030442c67a0fc7159d2104ec8ad7d7b495a95ebce
font_01_sfnt_off0000f58a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58A 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 62af5e3821d179925e28391f6e471d8ef80628f43c3cb07efa9d808b96acd5f2
font_02_sfnt_off00012177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12177 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1