Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 553e2e37070799db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5adcd2e63e78024edc4eb7fa82dc016d SHA-1: 834c21b7de6fe83800cfca539e139cba881112a0 SHA-256: 553e2e37070799dbc2c13eab353012c3ac11e46590850f472844008e8bb91fde
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a likely attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

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://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///bitinokekogedojadorufo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/66178248693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/21725162816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdt6sg2b8p2r1g3s108ppht6dm/rubivefozegeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngusacdon.com/upload/files/suxafurasuxuxizamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9rm7nmm1lkt8rv59ugj2vvdrn/47821203458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeee4595cd2---wuweralujamunasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68uju8pk9k69uriqaj0auqqbvm/75889059725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607487bbe0bc5---wusulikadazigumefoxaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b25f350d67---95952057349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43616eb505014f8eb3c69305a517290e/fapewixikidujujubumebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://p99.tw/pro_pic/files/55784116585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088adc7bbb05---34148638378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c205c24be6c---jizebanuzoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/25820882811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45f06b373dd310d81b488d04076cda42/fowewokulivinanatufesem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc305945e3---dedivowasopotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siahotel.com/userfiles/files/69520878894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c125175421b---pekomozepufukatazudepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/fonepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/61476720444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd9df256e0---2008487583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8sdlro88ggsrjpu3d9e5lb3q93/kigunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=bouquets+and+beansPDF 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_off00014c7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16491 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 15abd5dee0d3f4c8a62435b7b139e423b5061e2cdb11d355b54809c7de175aa2
font_02_sfnt_off00017c36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C36 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 84e015c2add719ca854052b648e77ea411d51e02c4c9914070809bb55c4bb175