Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a5321f660abf42c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:59:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: afe191020c24c65d07e735a50b90e825 SHA-1: 0d6fbac30f50e2cf669bf1c950256ecd036c00f4 SHA-256: 7a5321f660abf42c1c7bf558c5fad44a43dcded6e4ef089cd374e9c85607963b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and ML findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9936b8b64---66427949534.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/495vpino58n9ac6uno8pge6vc3/88302549292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irpuyesh.com/cache/fck_files/file/zabukisotutabopilutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15800fe64978bcb5abec49f6d49d0b6b/48626384971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/45575610362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a02fb62cf---biwoditazujolutesexanifas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db9f54b6a60a7a0c69df475373516b5f/jafowineritupakezugufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocenfis.es/uploads/assets/file/fifipegurakatula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81963468914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/90970557800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/zijifutobosutalobeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mbvsf65q079bco5io6d687n10/rotosawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/fisajizulenibepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/42882198122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/fobifurabuvuwugiraduraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983dd55d096---92921708176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/jidagavufewowane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/29151191927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72101470232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smgbid.com/ckfinder_userfiles/files/41177275123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/64859765151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b168c457730---wiwolesajeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/74787017944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidramaco.com/files/files/97668037654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929eac5662e---58265899339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=beveiligd+mailen+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_off0000de87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f69e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69E 10476 bytes
SHA-256: dfce8e337dcbc25af0968db4820c488b409bdb501307551f14ce35bff32880ac
font_02_sfnt_off00010e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E22 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 1b82cf2ee8430b3f462e31a7d66263f324d8df0270963c361dd0c0a76ef05f67