Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f935a7cfe7b5243…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 09:50:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c026d3dad122f71bf76a525590e629d5 SHA-1: c863ee4d479c5730d0cb56f0ddde3de5ea0e75f7 SHA-256: 6f935a7cfe7b5243b32a0d0bc5106e69f56533653c9b0a2267307e25a16f906b
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple link farms on potentially disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/299ebcddb443110180144a448e177dec/25470042223.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd18c9816f---89734301963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9559ad6e8---80183589465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/7411101069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxcec.org/userfiles/file/42420299620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087708befb8f---jizuwimegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/55488937692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8505e6ef9d---11301299260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca127cef97---kowewagudijuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sy-smile.com/upload/files/sapenomumafowaxuvewosupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6343ab423---68962372438.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c43a297ea1ec32c729a358a516a50bed/4335166265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/tejanivobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/vameduxaxetorubamojirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1ed5vf3u9m1cuqkc9affah1g6/74144789800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/fowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///wixovogodekujurabakuzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774ae083a8a---1436969262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fekegejotowiwejukeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/69160571241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/gulidudeziripijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bosot9v2gve9ojiccqq1bmh07/renesuxeligoweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/081eecc1336cd2f131fc12914e77166f/43656931075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c93b30d6d---31586485662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=100.2+f+to+cPDF 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_off0000f3b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B8 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 1fee307d565388f7a58adab43a8c3f065f8f5720a9bbf2e7f0c0c5a2df3cfa8d
font_01_sfnt_off0001207a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1207A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13890 9788 bytes
SHA-256: ada9306087751fb85aba2432e739b8d84d343d3cd901be7f7f7fb065f2eabb61