Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56e44357767b485c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:25:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 55863df167116efcae375afe11497e46 SHA-1: 87dffe5465d7a3929ec97e75e1b78f2428a74e28 SHA-256: 56e44357767b485cbc603260d2c7afed53cffe360fedfd55f42076c35fbc13ba
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious link farm. No scripts were extracted, so the exact payload delivery mechanism beyond the link farm is not discernible.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/73841922674.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt8rjesrmmg3pjtbn53l1l09ah/4200389621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16920ab5db---burole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee34655f5dbca050bb5ebefee6f5f26b/95003349184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095448a0cf38---19270382508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bde724397---20229231103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4093ee173---65724171990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc1434055de558d786c2f3240655276/39282747849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pobalefanesedupowavepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20127bebecacf5c06d10e05da1c0210a/xinamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a693468afd8---tagopixejapiwulagudoxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/559d855637ded8422b2d015cd217ed86/28879947895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27bn5i6a1l3okrtquusvpea8em/rewifimikalubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210625_1B38ACA4C39E2E30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e44cde2bb6b2c14d2498c9af4ad5fb2/32114090304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///8050090670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/vowevizinivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1619bce1ea9cc4352596c72478f2826d/14476097258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/44836543772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/33863958159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bpuass6bseh66jchfvktb8eeh/bewituzoridixudiragiluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40dc0e8c9f---40316399148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c63f56ccab---76276153890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=scp+containment+breach+nine+tailed+fox+modPDF 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_off0000e7d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D5 23080 bytes
SHA-256: b8e45672fc709892ec3b91bf1e6594d9f0e74ad7ef56dd845f94acf59cbab545
font_01_sfnt_off00012128.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12128 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001393f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1393F 11032 bytes
SHA-256: bbb36886b8f3c7f90b81c29faa54f8162fa7d09043295b72f7d93843e901215b