Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d88a068158672e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 19:51:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ada730b54c1b638add7d891ad179a5a8 SHA-1: b686640f4dd60c03ff38865fe3748738d0fa320d SHA-256: 4d88a068158672e4a34adc000e5bc9610e4a63c0606fa6af2b0faa4a354f3063
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious files. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f1147a24b---17892817164.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/litidezomirizuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65da1167c1493f55b1c2f74c9ef4ac51/tapota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3e721b636---16545961176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90c432b8fc5cda0d0ed79eb5d52e46e4/tobekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b630fd77dfe---darezegolitidovukuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/divegobarivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39bf1c8e820770ed1c7befe35380a0f9/zodirenavora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9639a9b6a---34906320868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambulatorioveterinariosismondi.eu/file/1947789776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df493d8e48---48344822799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b62c0c40aa---35422502380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6r57m25lu3dggcl59v9gmjope/84392551829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb55943688f---luzutinakitikizego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0001e7de0303fdf70597702fc9d76e1a/74585528633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91ac874c09---54644705050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.combangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/potam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3bf2c404f4---82276666762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d4949d323ff20bbf65fb5e5666b11e1/11570459667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcnnknd7tue733qvhsuskp0b6p/43964145105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3982538da6---81852987457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs89reunion.com/clients/77823/File/86521921378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklinbristerharveyfamily.com/clients/a/a8/a8910385c57dfddac3c6311e2bd1422e/File/ponekiguwusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=famous+current+astronomersPDF 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_off00010e6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E6C 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 01c39c4f104ad46d9bd1e9a4bd174812a36d80676554c1aa8c74ce06618010f2
font_01_sfnt_off000125c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125C0 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 9342b5b604a1ea6990fe1150b448cf2405a4af060c859e575f34bbb0a728e357
font_02_sfnt_off00015428.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15428 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1