Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e1e7c66a1ca3169…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:03:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: da8f7adb36962fab646405e8536f8b6f SHA-1: 4a474ba448a1bfe5aaa0eb6a044784942b5d718b SHA-256: 5e1e7c66a1ca3169c8feaf3700d88110f7fd63563876d6530dc92417f2e59cad
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external URLs, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818d1575c3e---73351714103.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/25047124784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9dfcdc558---66652805422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/87550166655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/53062959725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a744d99ed52---vijofutiremipo.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b0310a2c9---sekigumobowirefuwaxeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b278fde4071---rimowabigida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1iilda258suj6f63i7bibfgt05/79117842471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c62fe397e---17862960682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_215F333976BF24DA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/xazile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/titef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d53651e42052ae33fb530cae95a2ba2c/35664281435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c46957b4b899ab7d7afa4970bb67f422/87717661536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jckngvl0vtdbgcm6tuh3drgi2/96814381370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/46567998720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/5557748313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/ziwasexepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e52d9df466cec136ee657722cbc7217c/83556761923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47h9p819elitnfbesgl3n0otqv/71729272104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/wovigefavafebemeranogugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belhavenhighschoolalumni.com/clients/13962/File/53246434334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aee25243bce1924e7e4a7dbb388c6a30/78470200901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=simple+past+and+past+continuous+in+one+sentencePDF 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_off0000eda3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B5 17300 bytes
SHA-256: d481dfc297f62572cfe28ee55dd3cfdfadf7ec42d1147dcea5e1ee282888f417
font_02_sfnt_off0001321c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1321C 10752 bytes
SHA-256: a8d8309183f1ca64d9b47cb30a28e9ab8e2d03158e470c17a1944ace2756e2fe