Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 793cdd1ac0b7fae7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:16:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e15f2bd72f1ca89a4c4cecb04c10b1c9 SHA-1: c46b2def2e536c62b9f45dc8ab1958111623094a SHA-256: 793cdd1ac0b7fae7f666e77ac58bd6b8525233ad2e9e69130434caebc08b9d32
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggest a malicious intent to lure users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7bdef8c63f2ffa1a0504701116a6f6a/loranoxekutubovapavaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ea971cf792c30b6df5a2358ecbc4b4e/kixakinunubufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/pirapeniwalorabiduni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609774c56b9ed---84354698036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f47f7f5be55b9ae1e488cdb8e9b3ace/jakabubokuxejesodawakuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/jotozamoxemobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bjr0nmos3o7ek4aujv265nos6/pilebaluratete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764659effbe---xinurenatososebigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071faeb7b580---99993447746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a22091f4ec321f892b43d754653066c7/87558749707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e8d8da597---magagovuzesoxoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekuzofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prairieroseclothiers.com/FCKeditor/file/45847144142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf6d771fc66edf1a07302f6d5d78e2e6/50192673183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2740f4206---66582074367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce2efd1d28fc74a6cb8abbef8311edc5/budatobuboduwosamezilazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/nifujezapemipanod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/10835702883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/rajaxesurunaduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a908ed00098---dasukepigotipulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f681643986---padijapivaxenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e87ifnie4abc59qffso3c3shck/65995343736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/tapotolasukomisurarivoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=50+tons+in+kgPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40df180ff16ecac7a0712368ea783ee5/jerigomobatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000df02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF02 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 01fe9381efa6fffe0bb2279c4b5ed538cf70568680b66c035494bd3278d2c981
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAF 17424 bytes
SHA-256: fbbaad5eb35551fe9cc1d2dd2a920648d571b8739dc7b075ab4fdc8d09edc913