Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 785010190cd61050…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-08-04 19:54:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 690dac220b6576e5b28de58b2c6e6d84 SHA-1: 4eab779cb52ef8528ecf94a7d02b0cf50504213e SHA-256: 785010190cd61050c3e7d65dba42fe8142ad308ae02cf12538f49bbb10582438
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://sanarina-coaching.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53683856683.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oej4lfci59d6kos5s0scvr2324/ratusibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607021e6707f9---xaxuviroro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/bebebadebeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5482ce24c---xotazilisapesizane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zujivurojudojejevawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f67e61d8344a0638c4811896b982043a/89726989793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23ledlfi2qoong2v0ukq6k4h9k/xavutevabifulazunagire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idaft1dcl8obr0sv7s8017unh5/porazanetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/19555128111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc1cqg661ct17ht4qab5r94ec6/mipivosifejalirutorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba0298427d---87360786208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guidesdugrandlarge.fr/images/import/file/14566316557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e35d36e15a---26414425664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portamarioarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/12244235525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/gibikuzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921a549112e---bonapatub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06087725b699b6bd1b2a716e90d81610/62741157809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiari-web.com/ckfinder/optimist/files/nigepawavanepufinigixoxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibra-optica.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58566581913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/85099106132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/661fdc4329b9f4c1161ee76a64d61aa2/fumujesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cppzone.ru/users//blogs/file/57032134225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+carbs+in+taro+milk+teaPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E2 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 340b6251a76dac5304853305e9ab49aceec0ef944501532e7676e2499b36f938
font_01_sfnt_off00010fe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F4 18176 bytes
SHA-256: 80083c0744d72e9293060129e2315b2fb6cbc16059ec5eedb11dbbcca4d950cd
font_03_sfnt_off00015659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15659 3052 bytes
SHA-256: 5097ec80a3aa677ddbd14469832ecd0d012c9bd081d499e4a1368a3dc9ad3836