Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a88380a760c0ce3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-29 10:58:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bb33d8dfc30e095f89d6dfb11e42d4d1 SHA-1: 4ffe7a3bbd8e905fe22e3ea77bbc45adba0beec7 SHA-256: 5a88380a760c0ce357303416c00536f18ad088501ae6160afe9ecc9558a630f6
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristics suggest it's part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The primary attack pattern observed is the exploitation of user trust to lead them to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+often+to+flush+rheem+tankless+water+heater
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8019109e9---berakan.pdf
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784ee60da1a---nupibigibi.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949f7e0df03---88723298616.pdf
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a259fd7165d7099ee524a6067c23ff/19555979367.pdf
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/13000831767.pdf
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091144c28e0e---30244729234.pdf
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b79296e28cbaa1f1fea20925dcb81333/74437297205.pdf
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/9218985070.pdf
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/221ac19bb9a00ddd1f931671b7eb3ac5/josiradavodelofew.pdf
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dadb98dc64839e207f7691562426e821/40716218381.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc685f0295a3c3e6f9a8f2f2a73d5305/zutifuv.pdf
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lixivalibijone.pdf
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wotaroxidi.pdf
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2e49bf8a5---22100265067.pdf
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/nubeg.pdf
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a317045452b---fuwofumiloxaga.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbe3c0a102---63600151767.pdf
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/83137568888.pdf
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32be7ed40bd4cce9a6188b1551748329/61647363855.pdf
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/sasumuxa.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cca910503c---wapurekaberumaxavigomi.pdf
    • http://atel-j.nl/uploads/files/rogure.pdf
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9dam0pavoi75hcieahm7ecvhv/pusatovexuvulokazimamafu.pdf
    • 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_off0000ec38.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC38 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001044f.bin
eb2d39ea6835f2c59c0ae05a1dd2b9648d3e403453e8cd451bd15d4987cbacca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044F 10656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c95.bin
6fcf3029bc8a48e74160aa870e829883cf02246320a7e756cdced019817b8115
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C95 17072 bytes