Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55d195310b49f144…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:47:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6693b1453e6932cdd8fa7a9fd0aab794 SHA-1: aa7b19cb51934a92d3b97e7ffdfe77bb6e34e782 SHA-256: 55d195310b49f144fb03556e17bfc777e59e8ef08de3e67a1d56e5884abd6427
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The PDF itself does not contain readable content, but the heuristics suggest it is designed to direct users to external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc6ba74e4f---65260617916.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/mefirojubodov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zamemefinerifozirufezopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leancenter.net/public/default/ckeditor/files/19741286570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourgrodno.by/images/content/file/dejokakedujatuvaxiruvufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608469f313ed2---77442107314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/zalofopomowuwuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietetyka-24.pl/images/files/zezozofudunabudelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.funes.gob.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94472359844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krikrik.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/95192832164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1336561463bec2446a4f02b18d4813e3/nuxevofumetilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/badep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.info/contents//files/widevivixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62436553594a20a5d53d490c1a7cc740/6599269129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/55848146881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/tumepopipinafezeduvemiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/maratevaxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d5989f6a138882de1f91551d1b6c178/12794474295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chandrakantmusicacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fofujage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942cc348374---riralewumolirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents//files/fapirubibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/rumuvoged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607592dc2a423---toluvigibalibevaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vhssirimpanam.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jutojavenigojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=graphing+absolute+value+equations+worksheet+pdf+answersPDF 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_off0000e63f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63F 11444 bytes
SHA-256: 87583367a4d6df9138ff7cbf0c71e085d66a27470a6333443dea701377593d55
font_01_sfnt_off00010094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10094 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118A6 18024 bytes
SHA-256: f29c9eea976c04f94e98f487ddbcd0f39306f0141f969dadbd5d2f4200e6c117