Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 825d80c670bbcb5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:38:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: cbe8a1ede35f162eb20f91175c7598dc SHA-1: 17c7860f03fe8ac1ee8372d431da0626006b737d SHA-256: 825d80c670bbcb5cdf140fa6e77ab2ca5b26b31a7ce109c6d4b5a333c2debca9
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly suggests malicious intent, and the presence of multiple distinct hosts and disposable hosting patterns further supports this. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=supplementary+and+complementary+angles+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/305eddc615eba6681998bf9e7b5b0a5f/34888983448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5304dcc505c6566d837a31fb29fa1b0/faxidezevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k644n34otd421g1hil8ptvcad/28640289959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895a0abe5e0---nafatuxebukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bae3cbb385b59987255d6c198b9087a0/bimibogifubukovesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb26da0d9792125651e948ad779ee692/pibax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6118dpq47o4gfu7m2ce93u834/vogojosiledalizubaseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a551ec86b5e---dodeweradexogakedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/17429729865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a172745cdf0aa25d246142145939ac6/dejopuxusobenexasisivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705439464ad---33850052574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834f127068e---wekuzapizorima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a714a740776---99393987368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c926406e9---bakagugilifofusigatofolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ac90b3678ef5657fb43e3aaa7bd9398/75651312190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vone1hcrhh2ej09ftgqcp3jt8i/xavemojarujimizuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfec0e11ea9---59976958687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atallmed.com/userfiles/files/70468458883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092dc774bfd7---zapono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4944eac1e1bcf9c46a1a27296718fb46/61975507143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c1377ed5a8802a8787d8c7eb020105e/solasulimemojevereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4f5e0de9b7b94c74a5422f507c6240b/28018633450.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_off0000caed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAED 11444 bytes
SHA-256: 089bb74f9817e61bb2e83488388e85956635b8589eddc12d246a94bd28a2d5d6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A4 16500 bytes
SHA-256: b74cbd51ef36618c9190e602d938d8cd0dc907d65f06396711f01a3dbbd83966
font_02_sfnt_off00011091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11091 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1