Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f5458abc390fc20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-08-02 06:58:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 07b1a84a11ebc826f551832be2110bf8 SHA-1: 5ee13aa43ecdf4836b5b187def7ff20013dec894 SHA-256: 3f5458abc390fc208648515dc9319be13911c9e6cd9e3e79d305f696b7359af1
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the Formcraft plugin for file uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the structure suggests a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content or for SEO spamming purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdd1980bc0---55440617158.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d652b0c5f80f787effe0777f6fc734a/zemagusagiloxowezoxugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezotilemisepoxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/59200859293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3cd65dd7d---xagopigezaguxatusovunujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/91169501005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46b8bc7997---regatedulafumesadapikakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c60edbd0fa---vozomuxazolimaberujasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8789c220519465caf80a4c9e597ac17/70149438992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19racul7eg484qid0vorjc5o4m/potadajegoxofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/levoturijasetugixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgefamilyreunion.org/clients/86186/File/14677564365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhibaosang.com/media/ftp/file/dunetagitikevofoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7170baf8769fa61436151cb007377a01/wogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160932948cbfc5---55954880590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed228f26abd2b62200a177f60efa6238/28539445646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31ds7gnd9jbaufdh1lho65rh7l/jamuwomobadimosewaser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfcp7kcap1b9fpu7gkgmp681bl/xudoxozilabidedurositu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluidearthconcrete.com/userfiles/file/25667010121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ba173f9b8---32294638315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotofolliasanlazzaro.it/userfiles/files/62065853884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dae00b136a---2890828893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/xuxetijigukopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/matidatakibogebugojobudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/41161514382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b6bce918a---kenobidamizovibobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=always+korean+movie+watch+online+with+english+subtitlesPDF 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_off00010069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10069 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001187b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187B 17348 bytes
SHA-256: adf25a9661687c5e2ef1ef58cf4a80a163569083dad14ecde36f18cde78873a5
font_02_sfnt_off00014593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14593 11256 bytes
SHA-256: d2f6780f8437072abc53bda2fb9f24b77561e8e7a9d98814593b8ea60451f89b