Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46be334960a830bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-05-23 05:10:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9d453143b42513a3b706fb57f21cb3a1 SHA-1: 3eaa724455ef5c3f7c71836d48d8b60c537c13e7 SHA-256: 46be334960a830bd01dd407255fa578ecf33e481e8b8318e65554e2ae2b22a75
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the 'super-forms' or 'formcraft' plugins. These links appear to form a link farm, designed to redirect users to various external sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to leverage compromised infrastructure for traffic redirection, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bbbdc7af723f4bc46550e265e2fef6d/wolasuvele.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72103820445f51188eeabe168db0e875/61921108282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf58fe5e3a---5397344320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/332b0ff3e307602314b4d25e0da1920c/44227154915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4cn3r0h2man4feh7t9snqmk36/89549206317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077547ba3728---26096776811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b45c14350b---luvovadexobusekewafosezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/12813002282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e3e4cb4159aa45f74b65d9a1d6193b8/ridogujoriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1d954386d---64511842515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7f6dcb6d1---razilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7d94dd604---72941581919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebecaa776d---46794821393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94d625fae0---46852973398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a0804ee34a64aea68628f263f72ec1d/baxogovijutanokikonis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa56645383---fabuduwudilominodoxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=todos+los+pronombres+personales+en+italianoPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ceb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEB1 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 2bb3a71a00e33dacbcda1bc8cbc1238592589f8029a3ffe465ae4b54b6b32814
font_01_sfnt_off0000e038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE038 11732 bytes
SHA-256: c5815dd7209bc9861dc53588f2614e893ce544d278983ebbaa471f5592943588