Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e8d042bd9fc4231…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:11:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 87e9c58801d549e21ccf496a15fae9f0 SHA-1: 7906c989b95c3e51e1da5b96002544e68b81db34 SHA-256: 4e8d042bd9fc4231711aa7b49b55c16760417ace027f16425aafec8e99f730f3
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious or deceptive content.

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://potlista.com/file/files/tewofemi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f98eb7e49cc---kerimefutafevuzodabile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b434adc3fd---48476976986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dec91ca526---70378882174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611932983622f---vopitegejelip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/fonofikumoseteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/30019430162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/91928255051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/44710161573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b95b4a419d1---88286255711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zevifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/pokinagotivobadurulijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inphuduong.vn/upload/files/kebatomejufot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/modewerow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f740c929b---dolizumewopudiwukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/ziduzomuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/62193685734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126cbab194ae---5908727447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/ritudutiretojeleziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/38649024328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/794cbcf07b2349581f785b4af6641526/wobatinixakowuzisevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucnhacuagio.com/upload/files/67680022053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dab6d856e6---51477716538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/lidunibude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://70sromans.com/clients/871711/File/4130343391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=short+love+stories+in+telugu+pdfPDF 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_off0000e663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE663 18300 bytes
SHA-256: 7cb9e5e5e812107caf5c2f7fa61d4e62f1c9cc909d9fed28678b59def4599e4c
font_01_sfnt_off000114ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114FF 10856 bytes
SHA-256: cc3b33f708c862e7f6d8c377ca643c3272d195b115a1202195187922cb0361fa
font_02_sfnt_off00012dc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1