Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ee12c6fc380c629…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 14:06:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 547095f0320fd926259f9b51372619f5 SHA-1: 1bdbc36787a5b4c1213572a1cb6dd7d0b4e13b55 SHA-256: 5ee12c6fc380c62950f0693ef3555a71072b196c2e11ed7f4d3983ff6f82a698
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristics identified a high number of distinct hosts and links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting the analysis to the URL structure and heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbddf86e22---duseworizapet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/44078540186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/9096128111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b3619820d---19020734700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dedanskecasinoer.dk/userfiles/file/fanafijulipepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021061306305678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beulahcooleycollection.com/clients/870349/File/lerutipalasubijiligiwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1fd20525b5---tivafizepeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c3711e253---bimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jm1pmurj76rttuk2mqt04a2dm/wegobojepipopoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/soxemamojinuteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stegopackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn5466gbvsuaoebvunkr2p7bt2/lefupezawepatokini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/25201346399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8fc20670c9b0c5b5d733e65119d4803/ruzitefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotoner123.com/home/autotone/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/todarimewavirabowiradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1b0156727---82070651528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73de70b38136d95b17e99bb18614a167/tufileratixufogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609227331156f---gojudogobamipariduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0a6ec78515fa83b4513272add2ca402/mubikovewovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/49259276469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609036edd164c---28553501121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83020566620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/40681320881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/39518180789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/868825b9b6f71d4fb9a39cd3b0677ed0/latapifakilarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836ddb01957---47677168895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=assassin%27s+creed+2+puzzle+solutionsPDF 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_off0000fcb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB2 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 10834440e5b28d0553069f2f12e57759d8ad530192e108ae773a0e0fc895cb36
font_01_sfnt_off000115d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115D9 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 977b168fd88116c55b1b4b9fcf798007670b1f1ef8ce670b3120e6311396a353
font_02_sfnt_off000145b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1