Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48e0d1cf118fd817…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 15:10:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 86cd80177f42af0113e502a3d1b45969 SHA-1: e974636d5002a666bf387a9b35c39396b45f4ae2 SHA-256: 48e0d1cf118fd81756a082c07595dd365c877b81b45641ffce28d2f2df102916
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict, and the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links further reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=i+am+waiting+in+the+morning+at+the+diner+on+the+corner PDF link annotation
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827315e701e---47729714383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fa1b68ed8---19243487140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/92781162257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/83551444317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/210621031941890323nuu8kk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078afdf8fc41---50576590169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d4090fba7---felunujopejetawupepebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbf4bb783ca---duwomarovivewopoxaropezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/xisetamepadoxoxutonod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a67086cf44216cd07c38bface21a5e74/xoxupusetatesonobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081151666a5e---91075382270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1faf90ad161e806c621038a47591c1/vudujuwibupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7172c56f34---jemasumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/43128485670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/tekoromexuzirorem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/wugifefunusepaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiosatu.com/contents//files/30934812474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicompk.com/survey/userfiles/files/80470726744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295gsbaoqm3jjdri8u2ka7t0e4/51524507289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/21989985710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4d8153b1d---pedojovoremazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e16aad8777---12433181287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/daruzepulenuzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9340508bff45a4ab2a25016a2a8a0d40/48920933254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchenes.com/d/files/51650078256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ba85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA85 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 157d6c6536745c55a6af7d5b21be15f555850ca2939add89741f3e0983a8aa44
font_01_sfnt_off0000d27d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD27D 15212 bytes
SHA-256: ce4dd44c2694cbd434eb6471a08f5792d716f5602878579d1ba2c5ff7b2385be
font_02_sfnt_off0000f94d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF94D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1