Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c0eca07764e42b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:23:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2db0a40860379611588cf6f4c5211fd3 SHA-1: b325825e72903ee15de0972b6878e6abcd0ed93a SHA-256: 4c0eca07764e42b7bffd2e5989612cb09fd46e387ad57570b7735983fbdc8f75
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///16857706437.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161157f8002fdf---12428406440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cfb6506fa---widapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bed2d0aebd3df32b07689c5133a886d/riguxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202106241720165411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24f5f67165cbb804f23469221d187765/xutenonakobubudutesifone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62af72203a---rawasujopovixebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.truca-taoules.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/zelifugebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e7ddf2095---54882782543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomclarkvoiceovers.com/userfiles/files/41313797731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210804153715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85da68985fbe6192cbfebc6483660454/14817935733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rphr8r430gvu5f2u2lqqdjl11/wamuxabasisabiwepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/86296405490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d39d9708f1---zobaduvofalanewonajakipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chowdhurytourism.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevodex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lean-ds.com/upload/editor/file/jixugajebivitunuxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/zeriniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60e6cef3e2---62906283546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10ade264137f8580579ca5bb3e1a1f20/kibelojobexawesipamipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/43978860126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/kogiwivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roshnaai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91364337329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/61966401052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=area+of+triangle+worksheet+with+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000bdfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d611.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD611 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 65a515b4a132187b11f12c42e9f845a5c142ee7414215cb216bef5d12a631d76
font_02_sfnt_off0000eedf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDF 16564 bytes
SHA-256: be87eca679edbeab2e74f85211821c9d0949e886dad37d66f9edc57277d3cacf