Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5280e0364cdc76c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 19:58:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 68099ba4e83d2ec11f7036a1bc5c1d57 SHA-1: 025210ad97142f2a009e6ebe06fef4353811fe50 SHA-256: 5280e0364cdc76c8054ba98432335e5947fe01b2285226565d7e3257d924fb9a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm that directs users to multiple URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites. These sites appear to be serving further PDF files, suggesting a chain of redirection or a distribution mechanism for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the assessment of a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8d7f6d0440f35edb6d6513145049914/49954297904.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075aa7c0ef4b---37875251034.pdf
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f073fd9a2bc2bce3d3f4613359974153/57191951003.pdf
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a02d951c0b906f03750788e7a5d8528a/37280118483.pdf
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/302nv5lp2j7i62kl23st3al52q/9158673345.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6i18jelbi94t3pmo3g18rgqsp/nekugun.pdf
    • http://broomfield82.com/clients/4/48/489ff1710263d1ca947d92387d56c809/File/71928384053.pdf
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7tfhk58lgqkldq3dk0rboag5k/najip.pdf
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/753fff6e1847fb5d36fee083475dac15/58672364122.pdf
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//73222000413.pdf
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd641ae1f70---76729642310.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee2474604930208dfc09149da02eca7/sozewugigopunod.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c78b24801c5388de311b145d25769ef2/bimolizonufasotole.pdf
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/raduxu.pdf
    • http://stomerijindex.nl/images/uploads/89339837248.pdf
    • http://kruengrangthai.com/files/files/14152108004.pdf
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e75preargud4qh6i050gr32sk/mexejamasa.pdf
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/65581369011.pdf
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/lasapiwenakol.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352b9dc040de3dfd6c9034e2f345b8f1/63286560335.pdf
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/771996a2f8e7d99bb02c9cdbcff32db6/mololajajepowaven.pdf
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/tujuji.pdf
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57snqjkkev13jciv1n1r0531up/wazedo.pdf
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imhu0le8h10jlvslii39g6g6u2/27165669010.pdf
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2902ad9914fa423868b555a9c1234eb0/88912557361.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+go+goth
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e891f799d01---74347843746.pdf
    • 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_off0000f906.bin
0630ecc61b17c2aeb614483717c53b0380956f4b9d4f8c86a7857ee5f0cc5dcd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF906 9660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e21.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E21 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012633.bin
fea6ddb200518162e6149e60cbf20e6669a300ef7e83c993abcb4bfcbc1a34e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12633 17284 bytes