Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5204edaa83863e2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-07-25 06:43:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 70b21209587ba03e2416af725eb836ca SHA-1: 64f00296920d0c405e33aadf85788631b779d720 SHA-256: 5204edaa83863e2a08174ae703e312fb32f0d9d811309b88a3151eea461cc17b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host and distribute malicious files. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content hosted on compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1i3kdhc6d41inu9ub70uvng1s/97500655227.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dringraldi.com/clients/7/73/73ccc230e5ee2b020474e4a43bcd07af/File/14400853967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7c8fcdeb6cbd4f230a4ecd46e491f80/63318803386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076283d8e9a1---tagaseduxomakurasofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/55552132723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/fadadaxogewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829a331cada---velumalejeluwotafufinumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608edd71c1614---68029288849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe6779bba1---jetavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a77be625e---tadakib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feniks9.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetitoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed7f934419---ruvunaxotumovuwagiwujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.roimages/file/bejerujafejiremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategieb2b.com/userfiles/file/xigid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bcfd83b85b---menalemawemukadisimogax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070814c8110d---zakijofuviwojabonewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fle63hlioupllgs8tfjmfs540q/batuwiviriwagabopizunexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v565a3albuvnq26dr3ogr5mmfj/92964081206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc04bb2ea48---44603966179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a21b8ed7e---vejekiwakedefolifuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/732f8e845c639db635dfb2b68fb9a8c2/46190746096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/72440544636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7dddf985d7---42190128630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e141644dea0---44918127806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/kunafegunilolifapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=libros+harry+potter+edicion+coleccionistaPDF 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_off0000fb38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB38 18176 bytes
SHA-256: 6384e33ff805f6e34d7ef9e2680df497db4890fe751f84fb2c56a1bdfba69d78
font_01_sfnt_off0001298b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298B 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 63c10035fe96836df0633513df5667fbe164d38021808ad8836cc732bfb7c5f3
font_02_sfnt_off00014244.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14244 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1