Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70fb9f3f928bde7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.4 KB Created: 2021-07-29 20:43:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 45b313cee9d287a472a97676b0bf04d3 SHA-1: 5e717e4afac4d9b8d6cd53a45a952fdb85814f26 SHA-256: 70fb9f3f928bde7da5b4e913c9aca48e9c27382743b7e8db81645f0e6d9709f8
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 numerous compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment that it is designed to lead users to potentially harmful content or further exploits. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9873

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://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/41396495592.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717c7d6fceb---82752429339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08ae4356295fbe6c67644e81daf880f7/26559734714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5012d021ecf5b6a88e2f71dd88dae3ba/vupada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/kofifuwesupuwolefidijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verner.lt/images/files/89928033168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e7b932da416222aabd06eab8eb288cc/71556770447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/sasomanajujugusaledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c685576b9d---9745549376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/33900073696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a956ab1434---woweliberedofitito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d42e555f064---42102248371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d44afaf2634---98001189294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1620917638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b84agflunf16qdjug398bt3qll/jajepijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirtproducties.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mareneluxumaravuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/visq7ar3tum5jl8r7kesmcihr0/59456324771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/vijutefosinurefiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0b8a6c8e35728ca3862c3388de94492/jugapugufanomedipifizuken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/wepuponusesumola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41b196c688c8ed6e7c05501112ae57c4/vuborurasetuwoguregenukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/jogaponebejotili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2385574f181fc3e694bb881350d903f/jovegonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eramaztravel.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/9564552246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f8273bb98---bosaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f57ec2bb679---96583451033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=general+microbiology+stanier+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off00015e5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00017671.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17671 20632 bytes
SHA-256: ed91596b46afef1ee69065d43ee7268f57d3eb5164d00e1c8fa58b3154437500
font_02_sfnt_off0001ab4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AB4E 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 29b0dc0b8beb0160244d494d0ec5c10a4d3751e1fa572f4f7e98b99497a56a07