Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6982497fb0373972…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-06-17 10:48:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: b8e57b831d894e26c75c365e210b4be0 SHA-1: 2c157ad95e18375d2e0ef8cbc3569caf3d390b1e SHA-256: 6982497fb0373972bb4edcb4769ce31ef4be754bd41e974906422b9388ab7a9e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to a fireplace insert manual, likely a lure to entice users to click on the malicious links. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external URLs points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=country+flame+fireplace+insert+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74c12907f1---75527497508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a192586863d---57645809418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e29de2ee2d6bf39749d419c2267647f/tipameze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n015vkv7ptbmhr304fjr2210b0/rulazetoxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608325617a845---fiwewadenetixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02rr7figpmpi3ickgmtupr0h26/62578043662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b01be82e739b76ecd5f6572f8357ed/tusugepawogerigomanajeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b3fd6ade6---87635319047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/pofanarezilow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f7a894aa9005295b0eb1af284ad651b/20442102747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac77c9d95f---buravok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d6d36283bde49868958d9c32c12c554/labesekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088efc58a423---wijamodigodisujumonubofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/39855744137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608199e3960c7---wogojubagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/18728370171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb2afb2eb2---dojefofumanamurudutuneko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000103eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103EB 5168 bytes
SHA-256: a698f64b418197bbdd378889dc05a4274ed8aee292862105aea1b1dee06509b3
font_01_sfnt_off00011571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11571 11072 bytes
SHA-256: bbda661747d783df41f5fd30a682176310bcc7a5c6d7ec21eb3b1619f409035b