Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 730cfa3792585391…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-08-02 06:34:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d3a1eeb5d819076cb2f50fd09d41d948 SHA-1: 5374e53dc6041956ccd78b1c4b10d3c9032e4b3c SHA-256: 730cfa379258539131790e3f50fc3eef95c040182c546c52c19a64a726c95a6b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious websites, possibly for phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://kimansion.com/uploads/file/96025332250.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f74ac95c880---vexujirupapogudalizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifecareproduct.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43382676412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1962.com/clients/41687/File/62881765182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fba91242ac---silib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62f8d4e695590b95756762be06739ff9/nisemikozididafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a95fcc1b36---nanoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/gusisiwilugotikazusuneza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.com/php/uploads/file/27259316468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c730152e7d---nikatomisarovugoxazaloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fad2cb0de---59812711725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edb95f183af---dubukerefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ccde7f861---kefubazejuwexaxugivivemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3f97885e1---sexikatetixufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95089463485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a423158585b---27992921307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/33657516449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/79378970176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607051a4612a6---kixewolapokota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gigatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/balifexapedenemula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609456d3cd247---86344561334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87e5633b61---22071384662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b567847aca6---kebudovowage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hungry+shark+world+mod+apk+unlimited+diamondsPDF 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_off0001045d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1045D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011c74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C74 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 304c9806f5b42116cdd2dadecee8193c5bc6fb29208ac630a518ea3cc1f3e1ec
font_02_sfnt_off0001365d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1365D 18508 bytes
SHA-256: c3cd613ccc8ecd6a4534a36b10ebe7ec110f3c25747e7964a3a979a68c1c7908