Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83b6b10eff49a2e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 09:32:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ea00363eecadee2fb3b69a988ec8b322 SHA-1: d40cc37e00a6c46fa919e2b10e52ff55c82d29d9 SHA-256: 83b6b10eff49a2e0cf60b7cb51cdc2206aebb0908c868396d96544b45c04fb1f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or SEO-abused content, rather than executing a direct payload from the PDF itself.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6747315e1a4b81ee6f5d92deb25a8ce/19296442423.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/upload/users/files/28798862660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/1476289288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rejizugobevigopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqe084cejcdemceep1iqb13dsc/84896226954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/91147581054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75499f51a0d7bbf5826f3fdc7326539d/93633930169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee55203a3e83924225cf11ed1f04b2d5/darisijurorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gmsuf1m5qj16kq8ql9mqiiibn/81480132542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82933166886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46a9918d8b---58549942988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intestinalfortitude.org/clients/0/0c/0cf504f131cb0201443a7bd449519f4a/File/pimiruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congnghieptauthuyvietnam.vn/upload/files/gunagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/vojawoluvexax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/8999086390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a8712f43f1dd40c6122ea1279421a5/xejidurunofepisozonifoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/gumemivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e716c544260d477575696f303b7153b8/majomavonebobajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bc1b6f27b---59912343050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff2561a73e---wedemufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b4aed6549---wowigizavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/or5a12an9vvgu5j4hof1f3i770/tufoguxomagibigowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=problemas+con+divisiones+para+quinto+grado+pdfPDF 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_off0000e2ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CE 11416 bytes
SHA-256: 6aeda02254e4c31237ab31c4b1729b5652c2e17ce7029b743229766c0a482b25
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD01 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 2cd80289f4ad8b02a225f11ebbb16da2315a3e99f8fab0dee4994877c812d02b
font_02_sfnt_off00012a6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1