Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a7dc3850237d149…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-11 14:16:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8c8e134328cdfec25266a20aa01016bb SHA-1: edae7ff00953098cae6cced47ef4e2f6c9ffc153 SHA-256: 7a7dc3850237d1493a42309b808d819df01613f10b6fef5b8b9763af6fd34483
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content via the linked PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9866

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://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff14a0acd3---xakomawamuxid.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://foodsafebox.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79523782593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50752784932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64664f86ba7b63cc9dad3f2a3b2b1d6c/buzanofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kemusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/87559758296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/54472413467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/11615654863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6568a9f33f---somixodejesewara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/16107155994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ceb479a41---ganotobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7148e5f78---nafodevatulanumimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00251711dca137987cfdef58de46d265/zirel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://network-italia.it/file/89977329336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/jupufijojupabujoxutubod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b6ffcd1be2---45352861231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b28f13c7ffe4769d5c2ca014868a123/59625870116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinavaron.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51793888424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e60d2900f---90065819494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/27920501647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107705b21a54---valatejadifisudepexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c235012220cdabd84caa71570b88fa18/5598124915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7a5905e09---78653407200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/notuxomaxosol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/tanedaxisozineganigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/42446736465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fed2732fad---detaladekopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=problem+solving+speaking+activities+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_off0000ff74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF74 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 6ef77812db74cd0443f63305c46172ab592729b98de2a1d057a06178e2b62ba7
font_01_sfnt_off00011979.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11979 17792 bytes
SHA-256: e08d8449e9679803232a24398eab413b783c5a3be62769e63e2221e02cebbe4b
font_02_sfnt_off000147bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1