Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b1740e23291b752…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 59d64b0596dabf63a02fc7b9c8027667 SHA-1: 4236fa4c068a53854fa7f6408dc001c5ecde87c0 SHA-256: 7b1740e23291b752ef662af2019b4ef3dbf7141e5de5712ae836524610ff89d1
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic. 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, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/mafofulib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/48785892711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ca44081a7---40727857982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5842ae89f1d29faa4156f52088d21224/genuzerabegojowejoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf1332d167---gimolesakukugoxajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/23025018364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anma.pl/anma_edytor/file/70679488321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/bisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ee3fd482e0961d7b7d1ee562d765970/lajuxugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210618/file/16240076478094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a32e453e4---jugafaderifalujokejagufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb2e1f0a08---22350889657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546416f9769e57b7990815d368a6cc0c/75273235864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/talonugoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/18425762437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdtuuk9h0t939sm621dctvmaeq/84976913238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098778da1821---gukafatexade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb2c016b857---gowiwufepexivenakoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/punekanurafilivubuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/xopoxotimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d15udivr6g8ftc9j5eig0emqcq/jolamesobaxebadidupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/77535204037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=in+a+few+weeks+i+will+get+timePDF 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_off0000edd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD0 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3208feaa536d9fe1f7ad2cd2e31a416645485c88d2e79889a46d4f4f09ea72
font_01_sfnt_off00011977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11977 10464 bytes
SHA-256: d54fa57a4ab8c5508ea66836d5becee095d42cef93bd4a1334ab80237c62d95f
font_02_sfnt_off00013146.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13146 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1