Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5009394a58555643…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-18 14:19:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 786ff06d74ef97e9dd5219281753088a SHA-1: 010188cf394dbfaee5a0c530f7ae3e67244ea3da SHA-256: 5009394a585556437951a300a29a9629267b1695c7d3af6719023e93540b65be
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern is the distribution of malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/vixepatuziluvuwosuje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8ccrpnn6gq02ineb47rv5a3i3/91024124052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e782de19ff---36099590915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-4/20210704192032538341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bded3a4e9ca---91351446496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab918cc45cb---51735844713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychoterapia-przemysl.net/img/userfiles/file/15062122620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903294b1454---43495151308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/79400278383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hjq9psdp49fpqktstrg0876ma/tupeligozubozejiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecdb2e1960---89171381147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qricfa5834k3okd783s5o2ke9t/kevorofebijufuvutoxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piotrkowska77.pl/zdjeciafile/radipuraginoxibevupirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiesforfamilies.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/91548867277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/gepinezuvuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/xudonekijokesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/88940442407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/13721641133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zefobajedasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burke-gallonfamilyreunion.com/clients/28163/File/56490258341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b806c24b89---46754056078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c382407a5bd38b368cb196b5e275dc/buwifodoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/roxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/22864961654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a96d0e7699d450a99dbd2b4f55285ace/wezapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9cd0aa71ca5ed39fcd1fad1dd57ca5b/94945059728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/jivuruzagojobarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=official+monopoly+deal+rulesPDF 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_off0000e618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE618 16500 bytes
SHA-256: 7b2f84e37c082332632d9ef281a81268d8a8bf4c4c833932b2ac1895c8356b16
font_01_sfnt_off00011116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11116 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001292d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1292D 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 134a90b3830e37c67b186d8c5eeb0f8e1cd91b07efbdbce322a7411971872f63