Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 592a45cb009d0834…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:17:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3e128b83510d369586d00da920a5fdbf SHA-1: a54cf4e2dcb2188c79841c54f304acddf1c2bbf7 SHA-256: 592a45cb009d0834ed56c2128f4c40028d6c26181c58758453917ef1ef3df073
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 compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30ac26dab6---rajiratixusu.pdf
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/27912531998.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c714cb107e9dc4c0ed4d4f683aeadfb7/22711474104.pdf
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf1acd20204ec1e12066878f41471927/78982223269.pdf
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgd1ln17gst4h6g1f6ul67fd97/65141554833.pdf
    • http://visusmarble.com/images_upload/files/72868076741.pdf
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/256933437.pdf
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdade80e20---66381206226.pdf
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/80972823638.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863e6c2b63c---46671779459.pdf
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/30989225873.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833ccfc9ec7---53493018302.pdf
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ok0s16vitk8v2velms06hluqti/xovamulipij.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210611194150102.pdf
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ximiriwago.pdf
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb97592fe2ed411a869d3a0fc7f8b34d/nobex.pdf
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b128c6cfe89---sifugoseluxa.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b1c2b5e1b---jidagidixu.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7685e915651173155a5dd6fab33a2a8/16027195459.pdf
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fab456066436605dbdfa56419ea0029/mazuwi.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3c0ec5b4bd---43988736681.pdf
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62c987f1d861202a2a35ffbb631998a7/69351399301.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=tender+jaw+joint
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e706.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE706 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff1d.bin
46fe113bc50b2df372717e3d2873917c4541df9ebca58d6abe46b1bb776d59f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1D 10204 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001161e.bin
fc5d9386b0d2efab59f90a49afed5db2f7d87c017f9dd186300344f3033b93c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161E 16728 bytes