Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cf2cd0c16939042…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 12:03:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6e3d2e688f8cd7e655be0bab0c389104 SHA-1: cecabefc9c2ea590c11c4a1c85e88b3e3f575d95 SHA-256: 4cf2cd0c16939042b90033a213ecf9d12534d5602d4cbc87fa8c17c0459b62ce
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 multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to lure users to download further malicious content. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, with the PDF serving as an attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0449b0589---pofijonawunipaxukop.pdf
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d0bd634c6---39002986667.pdf
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31e1b0c907a304fd3ccea44741758e26/fisegulekagubuxoxe.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c888dd790---90051070693.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7840af7564ba202ed5c5f3999160275/91513005226.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608614d91a898---2669553653.pdf
    • http://attep.com/home/sandbox/domains/heekee.com.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jetidemonumudoxetasuxi.pdf
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f0ae8d98b63429b63084ea8df3da1a/80977790278.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/44204084090.pdf
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/14536498048.pdf
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35ac1f10c3---35256542419.pdf
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/lusosujujebil.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607556b4b29e0---zomekakazufalotip.pdf
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63f53e93ce0d38034c03cfff55cc976a/35753034629.pdf
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b6dc8cc55---59678323172.pdf
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a01b1bd9f5db5eacec86837fdf63ff1/juxolokizirebow.pdf
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/80299190821.pdf
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2on1mo05k91bmfkhbnd9tprq4d/nijafatamiberumifunipoguf.pdf
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b6b429557---67760306352.pdf
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9fc0ba98d---90845026733.pdf
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/9395967406.pdf
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/49826027442.pdf
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729467e2596---16819981709.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=jesus+our+high+priest+scripture
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012a7a.bin
d70905f76207f6cceee1657875f71a78537c2665ea5177e7687403b710ca94b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A7A 10432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014254.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14254 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015a66.bin
1d6a585b65d7036d1acb353ec9c9e50086b7afb834ab4f8ad6bf0dec71939b90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A66 16208 bytes