Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bc614f734cbbe1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:24:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b7cfc76d03fca16bf1d910e53feffc14 SHA-1: 995a11345d7bd81752da5748cced4a6eded77df6 SHA-256: 4bc614f734cbbe1f5cf6e922b5be64d8492aafaee167e9f2958cc3cb1b99d251
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by the 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate SEO spam. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ae7e964e2---kabojafenexunof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc693688e492bb4b1128e7e4c39f3168/gumuguzarakupeguzizuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc53743cd00---94814089502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ea36b97fb---sifudotetofalolixoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b6bd8bf2c---migetapafulitazetadutimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e5ab5321e---kavorurobogagubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2c04dfb0e---kanaxerafuzasirizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be0724f8206082e309b3c021256d24ec/66225651170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nq6qskl5hjnm1mts4k9faktgo/dufakumujidefinotoraligat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1f1815ab7d---juvibiterurosumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/kopanolamofowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/FCKeditor/file/59536456669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717de1152fa---62663732699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ae1b89900d374a24342e3ebf8e8a2b/38255008846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c434e9e5f269b11e972cc035360a8469/26212600779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075517a74a99---10621438632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cumh8pb9sac37pa5bu5fblhr0/jekaruzivawinalegozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3e51555e1---50811027755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070eb52884f7---67627111065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/86901013548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lometumolusupixupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ca727815434097555a0696232866115/14688150089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c348cb027702a922bbfe7ae139ef8e/31502067561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608784e787af2---90321397960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/631b9fac23482fabc6b305367d08fd3d/35261058014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=aunt+jennifer%27s+tigers+extra+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000fffe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFFE 17100 bytes
SHA-256: c2e9b03e7290bcb0618393d03e886a9f5d8f06f73ca230110ea5102f451e7c89
font_01_sfnt_off00012c1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14431 11064 bytes
SHA-256: f46f6fcf93d8a21ec32ef5d43769eb577f677fd1b3d911ebbee0650b9f11a0c8