Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a3f653019a7eda9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 08:32:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 89875aa2d07e89f5ced9ff597995d26b SHA-1: 3315dbc45485028e36c06967d06de1977baaf619 SHA-256: 5a3f653019a7eda9fd50b2e22cd8e94a243889479b904b9bc0e316b47748ce94
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it functions as a link farm, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or for SEO spam. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points to a deceptive or manipulative purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9868

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://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1c40305e848844ab48c44ca3dee5402/32523433221.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/waligekufikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/221b93e7fc2b6544ffbcf66dc64b4ac2/14589257704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c55f4b2f73---pokipojitagataresitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da4571a3a14---14537745596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32s2drq438795qtqk3sl8ssa1o/5374922121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e70968f6c0---26632903512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7b1bcd649---86742654312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woguwurewexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ffe5de788---piriput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/dixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2c15c5d49f3a138d5f042a127a960d6/komarofulanagupoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/72847647938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/70235289863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/83406764870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a00b7a7ce---wojebekevafotago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d24887d705---13237936995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08e96be15c694fa7814315f8d7a5bea5/buteripomifapezadilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/nobikavawosifuzexawafopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/26980668236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95q5vr54fsj7sq7vtc441q1k6n/69352415227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971476740ea---10745595478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0831f8d1475b8ca173059413a239f33d/biwozalofemesurunovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vogiantinhmach.com/media/ftp/file/22144134786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f56bbb11c2e679c1cd15ef8fec2bc6ad/19909390200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=othello+green+eyed+monster+quotePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13749 16104 bytes
SHA-256: 37c4223d7c774cc946d04c327559eb726ea8f7eea2948b74050dfd2031625e7b
font_01_sfnt_off00014c93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C93 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 72c7674024590498a0e921bd1fd78a42daae0b9cc005fc1dca0580ddd75acdf6
font_02_sfnt_off000178d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178D5 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 219afc5ccef1ef36f92db172e72553b2038e153b4235893c2206c52b84780bfe
font_03_sfnt_off0001912e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1912E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1