Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ccf435a7131d04f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:57:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 82a384fe40f4a4f0a752455e37083cd7 SHA-1: b59a97ab92101ee655b4deef9e9999332ae1669a SHA-256: 5ccf435a7131d04fe3b3baf3d2d059795bbf8d55236c370bb5eaf244d1b8ff10
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves redirecting users through these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=generac+transfer+switch+manual+override PDF link annotation
    • https://svrcontractors.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7da2801153921db5df2d73340675ef9/godobodetebiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809e2544a46---gabose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ecd8f11fde15255bbc61aad38e90c99/kuwafifovefitifironav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7960c3264c995e110e2409a9e1def5e3/22999268533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apotekatia.ba/fajlovi/nixakedanaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/fufosijolidegejenavajuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/31865300094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/42668059963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b9d3b4586---widamavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6aa419852---lovorinumizomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc5ce13142a879e087fac7e5c5514993/ruzolafuvenikegezesonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f92805d734---56014080028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/38032480456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geririma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c929ea26c09---xetujegixoxisosesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/7390521669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochistandart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutixivorazusuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntvichl5p45m1taisnadk4t0l0/jedigobowapilogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b20970e4d9ca17028d1638f57f2e1a8a/fepezazimamapokexureviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82089f02613e7b9b23d896e409ae7dc6/97759890388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608231874b0ae---jasirijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/jomugajabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d4b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B1 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 7f0580d30ba051260f7e9817ec76cae951a215b1702dfe684fabd2e3e9ea0d6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3D 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 5000f6324469dff0f3723857cbb99fbd97604218959dbc1e2b739e043faf9f44
font_02_sfnt_off00011d8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1