Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63ba37407cd65211…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 22:52:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d6eff956fb9469dd2c2fc5dd1f239c3c SHA-1: f1ebbfc58b0a173c61c065302c46d97d582ab04b SHA-256: 63ba37407cd652110c16227d9d60834f3cc48131e61377e5c7d3bb4224b8fb2e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious or SEO-manipulated content supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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 http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/76492985761.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6ae54471e---pubinigowogexuxaron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f27ebeeab7---mujegixurijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/matekarunofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/kadukemopowotafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/xodamodifabizadejopevoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835ea6461ce---10189417157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/41783181165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/19445207553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e87d1b58d3b9339071666370666f0be2/65154309386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/fetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d00346f83---suvinuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/melomonopituwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8822394f83---dixinuvogigizitogozaretet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915f11ecf98---bugimunepugikapogeloginuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078beb57a351---wuxarakaxusafunilube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60d86e7ac68b68cf8cd5acbbb7730512/takisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-video.ru/upload/files/5844716580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa3jqeu8qnfjqq83th8ir51fn/94509468410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh6d0b601tdojgdtt5qauogt0d/55593075288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607598ff42e88---65863110358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7074e590a---60787267281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbaa59de26b---72156974829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61670935187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca9197243a---masema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098895047b6c---vojovesesisasazavapoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd1daeea68cb181c9a3f0931f0b2ff57/xasexakakowavasodupaludop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=motivational+quotes+for+new+dayPDF 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_off0001087b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001208d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1208D 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 4031871691253935b6a210a1c1745c81d10e114067e52cb32ce4ca2efb23b933
font_02_sfnt_off00014dad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DAD 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 86d835bd1343a6007e5191751d63876b969fccb1f66e3b6c3fc6ba839eeff4c2