Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cfa4aac78db2974…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:10:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 93904e88e3ea2e5f121d41564df32e4f SHA-1: baff8c6573fa1ad5f672fab62abbc0cc3793c9f8 SHA-256: 6cfa4aac78db29747e2aa3207cb466e0de7b9695df6525c3f2599aeb8b53f81f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and compromised WordPress sites suggests a coordinated effort to host and serve malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/64786985638.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ba4abaf5c---50314759613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cymrozgreatdanes.com/clients/1/1a/1a407d8ccac5525c71aaafb6b4664123/File/letebivuwitururonalijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/dodejudiduwatasezuxopivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f3ac4484f25946a34ed5e7cb6f258f2/86164141595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/53109419710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cec278c849---207156005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3b98bc7574ce853ae2de53ed6a110b6/texive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfd2b506a4---nufakunewujifotarulirepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d36711502e---72389841518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/14622088760a78d32237c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/lapivekomuguzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelskadm.ru/files/uploads/files/51605880380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/76676027910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609634d0bba7d---93622870736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/52740914415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/memonagoxosas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1bd2b90a9e---fanafavatuxujijerofotuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/130002126906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/77462550531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbcc6c2f88---kufotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba8c61a48d---jubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/20855724978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6ecb24a5a---6120300212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/92008849815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=feeding+two+catsPDF 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_off0000ea04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA04 16944 bytes
SHA-256: b9a862a4dfd96e915c25d1ea7b44b7bf5a063fb4ae4b23e9e67655a2b633d91a
font_01_sfnt_off0001162d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1162D 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 6545d1ccbe9d6ef98003b25aa893bd056d74e1861bb002d019d49f6dc31b8449
font_02_sfnt_off00012deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1