Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59233144f7decb66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-16 18:52:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 38ef38703ce4fabcf8132e8203ea62f6 SHA-1: bae8bf606015f1c6c2e9dc148460d38acf67dbcc SHA-256: 59233144f7decb6672fd65d74de1e2637e499203744b210e73cc5bb10024e38d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, a common technique for distributing malware or phishing content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristics point to a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aecfc8e8f8---21335467644.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/jipikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b290ac740e7---43021913540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39719c8e9cf02abe1ad5551449f91214/zarejarisotubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c00a645b2f---bifititutirusujoramenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/22988820619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e64a91d3b41---bonipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hchs1972.com/clients/2/2c/2cb73362227bcfbd3ed6ae01b5b3dc46/File/fegewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ad404aa40---neratufinobaregagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c992e2bb378---xudexomudesezorasetileguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0789d4a917d4c465263037775a7dd26/72815516469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/megebitujezeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/34589183777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e0b42a7c2---94151559551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/651399d9a0715c421c289caafcd4fe6a/68497314287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bg6qp2lj2teo6b684fjl7qk0v4/vogonusipabawujulafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847217e8128---52405668683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210606071405779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fptf9ra94o5pia6o5c5hrj7jji/80156281527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607deb515af0b---pezapumovanokekapojemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mebufavojanesovos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e644de8030e---38884273841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/69031357757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangnhadat.com/uploads/files/tixedikurogipiwisafimudiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=stages+of+coming+outPDF 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_off0000f283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF283 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 04bde3a6fcb476d085d2bef93ca55266fec2dcd2ab7a31b72907511461dbc1fa
font_01_sfnt_off00010b14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B14 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 5cec5ae9d82dc69af5daeca8854d25dad28b90ab42ccbb3718e18bcb190ffc6e
font_02_sfnt_off0001372e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1372E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1