Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ac9e4a15ae7b9a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 155e951cf831e75e71ef473e9a124a80 SHA-1: 23584239db427536729b5b3f967ef0d485193ab3 SHA-256: 6ac9e4a15ae7b9a42686c9475f677b312abd2cfffa950cd8a7be968144716957
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm structure, suggesting the PDF's primary purpose is to redirect users to these external sites. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87413ab8fa---nedoxefasabibizedenad.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b87126ee760039a9f08e9f37b5be850/zazogadelofojujijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/50671067162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f5cae3e2e---94686554432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/taletus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/40320730284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0542a537fac3ca19e36e1781abdf499/87117238818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/divemekovevelakazujetowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860e06cfc88---14936148254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d91f4e27c75---41927615096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.irafbrothers.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/40618262302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebubigsellers.com/userfiles/file/wewarawoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/69245311644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/35269621267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5dp921hmfclurn2l3o6hsbci7/99947935142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/solovegoxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e4ef99fc2---vosixutozowuwudekujaduvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/jemusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/34748309427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210816212713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/41449015109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fed467b73c---95285987901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioivaigiasi.com/Images_upload/files/31302528826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/dovejeliditenibulijoxavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123683d08243---14959473608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de36a23a1b5---memevagugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=convertir+un+pdf+en+word+en+linea+gratisPDF 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_off0000d15e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD15E 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 5bf807a6e78af963534414f932ee8ea67bf6f16ccea496a51b03eb30c296dfe7
font_01_sfnt_off0000eacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACC 19624 bytes
SHA-256: d6159effc823776737c47e3d33419e5b2dd7a6427dfd153fa6644eb1a086bc7d
font_02_sfnt_off00011be0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1