Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58a9c5cffd02a33e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:00:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ca790527e387da7d8ff7216e5c2295e8 SHA-1: 018ce12b958b21956c116a3542fa61ddc8dc08a0 SHA-256: 58a9c5cffd02a33e21b4705ddc22bb4559f52563d7489ef5ecf23067beb8de3f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings confirm the presence of a link farm designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious, sites. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern is the distribution of malicious links.

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=twilight+upcoming+part PDF link annotation
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/vafutibukisisulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uaqputl277dkjj35iit3adfcm3/85198468411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9c49c14e6---97910528330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/95961345049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersensor.ro/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/tasenesujuwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/soniwedudedixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbonag.com/luutru/files/xavekopenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoron.net/up/files/18066490982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenhajimetustin.com/uploads/files/66658007423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.it/upload/xowezizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0ffc1eb5ebcb92aac166735ef26b56e/gunajiwosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb37e6fb06---vilexaxagonutijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiphangnhanh.net/uploads/image/files/11484922995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d68cc9747---gibivaramuxigiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paroles-vives.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeleposusunejasogasexesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/32589211882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondaototanan.com/upload/files/56010322718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dac33465fb15a9893d38b8940add9fd/wepinuvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22c656e495---vizugezakasaxale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/2016373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/tazonewewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/dadinezefarezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/falawixoxazuzabawoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallncart.com/userfiles/files/12869782045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e28b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9D 19008 bytes
SHA-256: b0cb7d9de1217e8e1fef317569f91b5b78d2b748e76e2c8d2ee4c24f12b94eb6
font_02_sfnt_off00012c8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C8D 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 58b16a742114d1db1c90b89d28f2c63d166d3448a79ec59a19398b4a42971c37