Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aebe562730597e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:48:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6222030f10e93883add7b2c8cd581ba8 SHA-1: bfc9b360baacfb7a1e36822b675d2b4fa04d186d SHA-256: 7aebe562730597e901a2137614a183a3a6920b1ee500daa7035896e3ee67e3ea
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, likely used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious payloads. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict, and the structure suggests it's intended to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vegan+weight+gain+meal+plan+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/bowubuwiwutedakatipusoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chokysitohang.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/vanidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888f9b13466---puwenemedaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb2f1dad8---xavufab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/xomijofago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps-chiptuning.hu/userfiles/files/53153986991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161067b150ff62---72454195183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://net-mex.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jezekujefifimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feniks9.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sisutovivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyskischool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nevidorulotilugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/zagevijezotavomodug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/28133224517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a22128926---70739362738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/wusigajevurorejapari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdhq30hv5at6g5o6uj83lslbn7/82526136941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df61ca14e4---39710897869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cerquilho.sp.gov.br/public/admin/globalarq/uploads/files/71017358066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088fd6883485---mofinutajifuvapomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site/site/data/files/8964971222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7ee6845b7---zosowagakusimipetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7g0ik8tb5gjuo8o7k13jvpm22u/zujufizofebeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/56075348080.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_off0000b258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB258 14704 bytes
SHA-256: 12362cc34a19f001cae6642a50ae91e58a14ab5d40d48e250b022d1da57d2a7d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD719 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF30 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 42038bb9f8ce60d3218f0a9d80de8e0c61962fc15f00c339358a446d9657d277