Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bcac6f0340131c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ac920a647a9a61555e8ae2ef4775530d SHA-1: daffffd321cfffb4a12e4f7b74a7cad7177e5009 SHA-256: 6bcac6f0340131c6d4b2401eab61b9004be79630066b27e198d96ab7ad4525de
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment that it is used for malicious redirection. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=animals+that+live+in+the+aquatic+biome PDF link annotation
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6d0m73g2967mfgmvchdmdodo3/25338214519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30c8879168---95677109581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd89611ab233f6c56d4f7fd3d0bb7ced/46068665480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16006e74ff---fuvumexeguwozewituzole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2275ea950---4850161534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606cc1dddfd78---17221554434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ccb6b2600---vikiroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079382ba4f50---56307911340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/45808104487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801c3f64500---talozaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5390c3c12d---nonoxaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90s8vi16o5o9cle05huc743lr0/8575964306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/migaradusobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwsedan.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/numasizuzosunewozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d79998ab795065e5cd7ef45e63b3f572/lopimedusamifonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b70be1ed12---tikejugivupenamipizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seedomoretravel.com/files/files/bujamunamirazizugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c35a8e72d079dcf1bf74b36438e21f4/28333476472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8e471d034---48067849549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6a7b3f0327ebe31da51f540475f2de1/82832812119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/sufezazakulawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17e60dafaeeb37e74697643b7f03718d/34928249405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/19702372982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/55881634180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfhs1978reunion.com/clients/56625/File/48046724697.pdfIn 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://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_off00011bf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF9 16712 bytes
SHA-256: 58cda12267e63314296aa9947494c35450d948458364d5628fb907de1201bff9
font_01_sfnt_off00014766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14766 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 91b0159661a624058d9ff1339bf34123ea1ec9d4aac661f115768b4fdd47e743
font_02_sfnt_off0001603d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1603D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1