Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5600b2f6e3523209…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:52:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 093457899f5a01ac8190b0a568cae6a1 SHA-1: 4e7d9b965ede504b8f8e5104a090e454befc4f17 SHA-256: 5600b2f6e35232090eb31fdb084576f5aff4ecf021deb4d7318468aa623db360
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads, supports this. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics suggest a lure for users to download further malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabuzukoxotimugu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/bifexazufexerivexuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a0c687ef0a58b53b1d1b507b9070e1b/6858856863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51a1e0d81d23712ae5596ae6ade67a7e/kejuroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108ce35f3be7---50259669340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5c191e498---33372471438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/pixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liavanhaeringen.nl/userfiles/files/tezavojudatifek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ccf885592---74355247225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad97abb91d5---mosinonipilofadujuxowazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zitizogisewegasedepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpacepj2qgt9tuogpk1sbroob6/losadupagobawodopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/45478173149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bc2622826---32638162125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/tetalefikivemakokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/15709979581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ab8c515e9---1589486577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/fotuzixupek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muabannhagiare.net/images/uploads/files/tepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078023438f61---49404038573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d44239e43b2195a8178d36bcae6345/sitokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfvf49eteg7v5jq9g73njbr0pe/witazukow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/niwexebakugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=washing+machine+whirlpool+repair+manualPDF 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_off0000ba56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA56 15200 bytes
SHA-256: 643a401a738739320b7e89386115a6a55b8d613ccf9157e3568dd048aed2eec2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e11b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11B 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 683d5db9536df1e9f50e1f252f18a25d204f030360c6116ce0c470d788a0686e
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1