Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cab39625ae7442e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 10:35:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b7a3936cd4f64cf120265ca1d4e47ed3 SHA-1: 8941e39cbe542eb9026cac1a0d397884f93ec3d7 SHA-256: 7cab39625ae7442e9950f6ac63ccb43fcbe824e01cd9e87c5a0e23d4ab1ec2dd
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supported by heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as landing pages for further malicious activity or to host secondary payloads. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised domains suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/090e05c3622824b5a99711ccb058483b/40022167539.pdf
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uk76fnn0b4j5r7dpdso2hmf002/wewuvaxogizut.pdf
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/sorifupipew.pdf
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711ad960722---56135597894.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805889c37ec---74316857709.pdf
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/06/202106252342519308.pdf
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/67720700938.pdf
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0l4gvfsh6gnvbunuo84gtc7ts/91032638445.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0a84781eef---81556927035.pdf
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2e2b0bcd1099945f2a67e3174d88bef/ribidudelomu.pdf
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/liniwiwijesoxutifi.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggi8cahiah16vnoskclhg89kcv/51161167996.pdf
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/norifexonaromaf.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd71ba767cda1d3821d02c28e74659bc/95478053458.pdf
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/41332552773.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbe1451a3b---jezamesawuxafo.pdf
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210528054500.pdf
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/tuwesalujobitida.pdf
    • https://bonacorsi.it/file/67642829844.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a586536c8569af818e076585d7a20fde/7519269259.pdf
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dakigakivunimalekup.pdf
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/84008937030.pdf
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/nabupu.pdf
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/27594065147.pdf
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///petinogenutibukafajarova.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=low+blood+sugar+in+the+morning+non+diabetic
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e839.bin
f417ac50d4197c7d60d6f8dc82ffe0795c0eaac9db8b735cbd9c781447569f35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE839 11100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000101bb.bin
82a5cabfcb7d86e7049e20348af962fa0325ae1cca666d8c041b87c0e2000843
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BB 16868 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012dbb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DBB 16792 bytes