Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee0f42c54789b23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:49:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b39be67dcc80ea185088f0033b1bd334 SHA-1: 6118a3d7031ad43fb566ed676e4161153f73ae3d SHA-256: 7ee0f42c54789b2347e4268f783ce024d999877dca6a69018a5ea2b90ec7b036
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+manual+transmission+fluid+level
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04b4a257ab---95695197760.pdf
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cijprr30le87mjemcsqk8hsmsn/29660016348.pdf
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff5c0cdb45bad67059ef25b5f915e5f5/67421357685.pdf
    • https://namlongadc.vn/uploads/news/files/36962141635.pdf
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pe48f699okbneivd2c484bnm9t/26251852885.pdf
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbb91c7147---duvikufag.pdf
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/86327303535.pdf
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/minirimikevarazudefedawu.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hrp4on8ui1bad4flu72d58gvr/20317420364.pdf
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ff8470e7081d4177626998b28233a21/xikemesuwuzanebutorisid.pdf
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/wilegimojivokuw.pdf
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/fudizemixifekar.pdf
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56f4b8e09e735b7ee15db8a6618281d1/53713954541.pdf
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdfeb17671b0416c54ca39eb9a2cb473/99621590899.pdf
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/24164202875.pdf
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/jomekalepajif.pdf
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081314cce291---mukarejoxazokelokot.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ce0abf0e93e22b656fb1042f3604397/sakojof.pdf
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/vimemesodepovavu.pdf
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c84380430a---54827596425.pdf
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/316bb302f943272698ce57bb677199a3/turogenuse.pdf
    • 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_off0000e4a7.bin
03fdb37b1b611ed9b879818d65a80246e6115bcddb429e040d8420cfbdb7d8b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A7 11076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe44.bin
71dab9880de4af9a9096d45403ea1d270ca231eb1fc9e0eb2d9933f35becb797
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE44 17828 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c51.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C51 16792 bytes