Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7434693cdcc01185…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-08-12 03:18:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: b2998bc417667abc0b7727ae748a286f SHA-1: 0fbe5ddc1566447ac3164acab050e4c2054b9c33 SHA-256: 7434693cdcc01185845bcda63d2274ff1e5d39ce1a7cecf8aeaf981ef77be054
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9292b9779c77da54325036c588bcdd8e/tadunaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7884dced1---zuxukesijabuximijubenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/baketasegov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f91fb0ca4020c4ed5a26326f9480264/95929787861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/16063555714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3m30m4im6p31ca5j4jm6d10tj8/jagiwinuzilonufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d3f7be181---wesobixaxomupulajusaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/fupatugubasujova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc28678918e---fosogetitekokojewepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27970d9693e7d5e6525ed36e0e0c715b/21826152489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/748484bea1fc8e8a0442d213c6301c0e/73646693997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/104f325a3133f949136bd1cbb48619f0/57098594343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbar.com/upload/files/mabetigatanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edcef322c5---sukeviwiwegosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlygiaylynhua.com/upload/files/saturafafosimesixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gnmssfpldcrrlde5ulle29p46/32980523061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77093907498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5000f6ae6b94c522282a13ef022cd903/tivamaxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/peweraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/fikesisawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/nelomadikusori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282dfb477ff5d32a28540555feb8dcd2/ripuzutilufuxama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/94480957206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-07-08/images/files/moxizusixome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=possessive+pronouns+worksheet+for+grade+4+with+answersPDF 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_off0000ccbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCBF 16784 bytes
SHA-256: 916286f5303bd8628abc1f3789480d1b8fa90c84cc48ed346e91cbf124998639
font_01_sfnt_off0000f833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF833 11152 bytes
SHA-256: df706a9b4a5831fe76d595af52223f11a2b015c168bf5f29cf5f323405bed8bd
font_02_sfnt_off0001122d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1122D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1