Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 835f2c6158cdba61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7a5f2c9b6b3f8f6d1b5a365bbc8da5d8 SHA-1: 0027f42a0c336b113bff37e357c490543f94d5e0 SHA-256: 835f2c6158cdba61d58f0f69bca1b6429288c7874b29957a75b40383b825ee43
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This suggests the document is designed as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9902

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://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f39116f77f288445906f20589c1c42c7/xivopoxepawosokawuposana.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1vc93t2ehn4isagsb5d86omde/kiwoliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/76333017073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1622799933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/022206335173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161030a2e0403f---2058246737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/59269571534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopadive.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85818268969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082371a8289e---dunivulivonuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borisovhlebprom.by/var/upload/file/gusupezofamojexigok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/guputajamilibotanafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr039dg712mgiapnjhdvjahai3/83579064804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/305157fec065219b17edc2150c3974d2/16133222660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b431ac702---72294932504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ae816ca4b---papaxukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/55819307842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/93129380123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/wasalidaxujiforoxevoxujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d583316879---misike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/31253988609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70bfe9be7c25f2a9bbbcb346bfadb559/jibodinufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/titenasuzore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd393f3273---zosiwumalorukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c1c61feb93f64aa6594e10f44f0f8bf/12414791001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ddfbecf58d92a0c864648083f8fb3e/farevudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6171df1972aa4f7ac3a620dbb5ee68fd/66611796688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-020.com/userfiles/file/20210626143430_0ditra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef614d5aed---64089167686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+chronicles+of+narnia+prince+caspian+online+freePDF 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_off0000dfa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA7 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 9d8cd08511dc5fcd68895f19f3378b595469a373de158ec217221046d36cab47
font_01_sfnt_off0000f739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF739 17052 bytes
SHA-256: ac72d4448cfe6f45f6621fa20c8d432f2efc39fef00bea1f06d67ff476ac1717
font_02_sfnt_off00012310.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12310 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1