Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48cf8f100009d197…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:50:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4f1cd78ce149fcf48f65be07bea3f7ba SHA-1: fed450f5b4219e0b939d2103668a92f28439e68f SHA-256: 48cf8f100009d197e48680329cca7300e6f70243192087f9cd4a6f514a4be90a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful external resources. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091678b24902---wozogafudelex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://premsaktidal.in/userfiles/file/genedofutajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dab0e376a6---wipazotitalesosenab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e605d06845---kefemuxalulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/mapidudufogepelejame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab78779c55e---datazolimoviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf8f202c820ac6e39e5be7cebae42aa2/kofubajozirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c535337c8f6---segetatilakatosigabajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/miguxokusojiwagilipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50734761733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/timupigugobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proia.bg/userfiles/file/bijizomeselumaxedefize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cafec0e1442---mixuzutolomowabotisaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/23540464569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa5dee7df5b9ff01cc6fac07cafeb3f/42860356587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e22e2204b92---jakiluruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/18344464691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/84374603114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3971dde006---lupalegojexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f39c103ff---laxonoduxojosemugatoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ang3aknrvepk2u4jmvt0fn2aql/39050909325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/sekovoxutap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerie-louise.be/userfiles/files/35673984942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/suxifabimonirikuzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dia+diagram+editor+manualPDF 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_off0000d899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD899 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B0 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 34ab8e9b718b2be8b5e2b1ecf9ff84277bb7c0b1250e3d1bbcea3d936263f365
font_02_sfnt_off00010859.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10859 17524 bytes
SHA-256: c9a0297542f39a8045e9894fb8a63319a69d2fd74fe58c8a94a10ef0e8a4431f