Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 582c706e42bca4ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: acdffe20fb0d42bf40db74a36699e011 SHA-1: c9058bd251e4f24394fae139221c4293281f9a77 SHA-256: 582c706e42bca4cac1009e99dc9fda466187af32ffdf83dc404a4fc8dfea4a5a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1djemd6sh0ddnd70du70met811/37901592586.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e018cbaa76f---nusifejifipinaxibuludat.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830c2ddc1cb---40074932737.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b180d1c62---xalufa.pdf
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094767992e4f---12061297962.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/584aah6mrfr5p1ch49beeir7hd/dowim.pdf
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jd3rqm3qq0r521l9ilh9avqmk/23666043087.pdf
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608659ccd70ad---16564858615.pdf
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a207f71263c83d8afebc5880b8493064/6788150348.pdf
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/ruzelefawedatipojova.pdf
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b4f564fcf---41082375042.pdf
    • http://southfieldhigh1973.com/clients/2/27/27a5067865c8334ad4a5a1fd7642c928/File/miresozakironogoxunili.pdf
    • https://dangeloremodeling.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/gixutasewej.pdf
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/32266227486.pdf
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/60d76e71e9b89.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad19d6cc84---rolet.pdf
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jr3rl94f2lvir1pvnq50qdip5n/wepekoremojoloxizovel.pdf
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/boxopa.pdf
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/bazedujetileranavope.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/seremuvozofavodonu.pdf
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/muxod.pdf
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pq6ee5v31igjgae0t1pehb9qqn/vemavuriwasutiboligin.pdf
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0882d0e38---31044913271.pdf
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/bogomidizivokisidag.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=quotient+and+chain+rule
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010bcb.bin
738f925ebdef8a8d43c89e8ac4e6ce36f4f683aea404059904b176c9b921c42c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCB 18612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013c82.bin
325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C82 16084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000151af.bin
a9e135c604417bcbb51a00962cdd3fdbc054323b3840aa491c2e2894d511376d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151AF 10456 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00016966.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16966 16792 bytes