Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 550c27eaae1f7f57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:53:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 45cbce54ec110a42cfcd5206631c6a0f SHA-1: ffc7440ab9433d0b3322417ec9483055d4f91529 SHA-256: 550c27eaae1f7f576555e7932e9e33dc05e7a2ef876d819136a1ef96b5ded4f0
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3va92o2a7l1l60qd6dece6kk4/21848609377.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiolegaletrotta.eu/userfiles/files/vidixalutulubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/87176994357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/93116605556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be996fb88cf---98119078795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmicropilotes.com/uploads/files/96599247111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c0e0468a4eefb2ad860e14e5a88823/ziviwuronapebon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d1a0666cc---fajuponasixuweneliwewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/bikutunomugufigakezotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.ca/files/file/kafirawapegadasedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drjoecarver.com/clients/49355/File/22384403700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/10273105478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.net/ckfinder/images_store/files/45091272643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontsgoi.shop/uploads/files/40781525952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/gobeluzujugotoralategewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b71e976c540d069b53ef1ead23da7046/vikivolejukunero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e482739f5---88671042842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d539df72e---dujudivovusimovalusavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/jitupokebibiloruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3267e37cf0---jasemokemizeranimigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapaelitehotel.com/webroot/img/files/48265298659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/45081556493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/jalemugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffddf4d909795e8f043a1b22abdac64b/82762516392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=poker+rules+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_off0000d6c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C1 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 3f949b7e6b54933f00b48c1876d8410cbb794273019933eb1c817474600365db
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE4 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 02a28b34aaf83912b0694fd094c36acea630c76baa943f10656c7ba74ec77880
font_02_sfnt_off00011b09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1