Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a9fdb870ef1eb5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 23:15:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: afeae46c14012620f476bab3e5e1bd26 SHA-1: 8d30f195d486d727f63173c8d1bc5225e9511fc5 SHA-256: 5a9fdb870ef1eb5f4686dc23846db0122b2f0ba3dd2b2ab4cdca21504a418d84
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of multiple distinct hosts hosting PDF files suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malware or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm itself is the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ac8cf3f8f---sobawumisovotidazamufapi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de52a0d28d3b4cd4e85a69f055d6130/gamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78ve1tl34dom0su5vod2velq70/16858323172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3dce03a9a---fuxodixakuxitexesatojof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64cc321cee---47947383363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0be105bf4ea87b610f0c2791725ea9cd/mokexenitogogerifexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/63881098822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817de58e757---xezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/xamofufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6v9r4uluv36hi2dg6q3f37k8j/tisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e94f30fc8---kusuvozogevumiwabedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2496b24934890e7e5d2c8698d572fc69/47263304912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079532e881e3---potipojinixodemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21654568356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fab2816c7cb3450a85202e117ab534d8/12658029485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50130f67f23fbbb05c8f062898a9a6be/11013658514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e92d9477654a409fc98497508b1aef/gudivamadokejiloru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/17568946544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/vigogurilupanewubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb1998a5c052cb8091a59c7acb1381a0/losofilajajodiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brownewingfamily.com/clients/a/a4/a4d7a48ed280e719b438ae57db99af5e/File/zerogosevikudemafiwobuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/tanuremikaromumokepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9078daaadf---vumozefenesuderisokof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/purupukejaduxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/babetomevamevivemodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/givokosunarajapevowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=28+weeks+later+full+movie+in+hindi+dubbed+download+filmyzillaPDF 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_off0000f899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF899 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B0 11508 bytes
SHA-256: 457a69e42d28cdd9ad662373af710a33f4f4b66d02c9293e6a1310bc184d1c26
font_02_sfnt_off00012bea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BEA 18400 bytes
SHA-256: de082f144373ce21faecf05b81f22b17c4520a970d68330edb599ccdcc38aa0c