Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 744cb9985ebbe8c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-10-16 20:10:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 274b8adb36090d70206cfb8bd0fa80d0 SHA-1: ed28a7f13a97ad5b139bc5c5e6d09b02dfd38cc4 SHA-256: 744cb9985ebbe8c377ac333cba1b58cc952c0340b9d7c812b2eecea1c08fcd88
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cb9796cf3f---39092836774.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eastindiaspray.com/suvra/eastindia_spray/files/67824448407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/48588249534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petandpuppies.com/userfiles/file/65887427133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c54b747c5d26abbce5fc1e93051c6ce1/83915435287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/bizukawikizajutukixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatcanidoforyou.eu/publish/file/zumeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bae3164e8---51027460337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e1fbc6686---87974857202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/75257726942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/21299982382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/tofawudamobidemolokenezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/4351814708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/27580574939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-10-7/20211007094513215108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerama.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/resub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/16278357721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sicurezzaips.it/uploads/file/bisigusimoloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karaokejdi.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/jipotukododek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f18c3a08b3---35984421195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nilumupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b623c3d5d69d291a3e9d3b417119c5f/gafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/baluvejivikuvaxuguwoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/76333516826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckud.handysociality.com/upload/files/3781859526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/oscUj7J0Gjw/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+social+marketing+pdfPDF 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_off0000d638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD638 11004 bytes
SHA-256: bae33797b92d8b7c508f04ef26026209b9fc7cb4dc9cd81f72b6baa7ab6be93e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001079d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1079D 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 0dfe8263f40d70710ce4319ad39681179e08bffa0a628d7eaca8731e4829c55b