Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d983e7b922969a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:25:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 096fbe6b2665645f917c93d16835a9fb SHA-1: b0a9544841da3e74c1c7263dd8b227f1992cb9ee SHA-256: 7d983e7b922969a6271122a2f635e8e44361b01ae194f39de3b46715280b455b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised websites hosting malicious files. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings confirm the presence of link farms on compromised CMS uploads. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cecdb2372a---pexokovor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6404727d84f53502df76c678f7c3b5bb/vapigegipisusuwerexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27eb04011d6c9c01af00dee683241cd1/wexanotukajenibuwajogisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfac12d626a---27736626618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.haievent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv9h0fc7ar33deqbqgrrp8e5ri/49256539233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e57a0e120---32149691385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/42639823358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210619204953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/719d6069b4c87103bfa7f408843cbe1b/lujezodego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef46d0f6e7---74655526545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0b65807d4ae6b7d87605a341017d085/8911902900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/64862822619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab5750d77b8a6260fecd115daab07ba3/99700476199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45d0bde2395812a632c5ec716780a708/19557655588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6vejpifiscpc5bvgn5o2pmtsk/vutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f57b9d0ee8---12743093477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aab7372f22d95ec035b39a14cb17ff0/sexuwituta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1be0aa8d7a11b623e89baaef597e1d0/gobalisudokadelajarujoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusrelay.com/clients/e/ef/ef304ccc03541e9e6382bef5f13b0a7d/File/59900628995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18bafc8819---kinori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3467a5498---56633114482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609884829424e---59218219268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/76579699166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zionhillfirstbaptistchurch.com/clients/73368/File/40078172060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/9355929318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=need+for+speed+most+wanted+2005+pc+download+windows+7PDF 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_off0000fade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADE 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 08677b080edfe8779a15dd2791383f975c1371def5b8c6bad4d11224d2c463f4
font_01_sfnt_off0001279e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1279E 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 2c13266707e2674bd01e2c2541e7f443e699687ce01e23c85905e872e541a54a
font_02_sfnt_off00014245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14245 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1