Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43468b5ac4f029ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 03:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fb6f534faef9019398a481f085f218f9 SHA-1: 88956fe9fc5dd7b1f3e9832b22c7ea120c360534 SHA-256: 43468b5ac4f029ecb24476b3244709aa9a32bd750f647ae0f77afb19c89673b1
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple links on potentially compromised or disposable hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391cebc4be6---57643881777.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///11211359397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onmamtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_C5063926958AE9CE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wish-pharma.com/upload/files/41698140518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jp465h50sisnhk11hi6pt7bhq2/wadamakufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/goguruwinirenavorasekumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/nilebuvofugowibonezuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/55767876182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geerhannutpourreussir.be/docs/upload/files/9786406462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/zuzosukowivupuzezogurawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a33c2998687b7dfdcfa95fda0b004b/rufuwapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/tovozelirusasunuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikincielinmak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dapanagidexadutonopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohadalegistrocbarter.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/88674988378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihappywash.com/uploads/files/202109020315521244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d6e025cd1---99546232366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champaigncursillo.com/userfiles/file/61791268887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tindangnhadat.vn/upload/files/subuvukuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f738006d3d0409ad2c658373ca60b39/mavotuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viessmannboilers.ca/fck_upload/file/xagaranuxaseredijipotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cli-kh.com/uploads/files/202109120619139709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d192a77c2---4862496596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613477834d9e4---98691121822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-pointpro.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukidufukewalipadokedokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=tubidy+mp4+and+mp3PDF 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_off0000d7fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7FB 20944 bytes
SHA-256: fbe1b47ec379a6d8d12c81cf1f4443ac4cf4d0ae22260e786fc0da3635d4c51a
font_01_sfnt_off00010f77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001278e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1278E 10456 bytes
SHA-256: b6d92f2dc1f2c2e8d1590721f57b3d25e5535596edfb1c8282e36e5eccb67663