Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84662dab27283f82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 22:17:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: df3d74593d12044b0a3a22ed68b58a2e SHA-1: 75d2ee042f17a7c22c8922c6a1787ce8ea968243 SHA-256: 84662dab27283f82389de1416d7a2fd5c2504dc768ed0cbf2ce6a06476d0cc20
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristic firings suggest it's part of a SEO poisoning or phishing campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves directing users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2d8b6999b0---mopolidazem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/mudonoguwiwenezijekodewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/nadagesimojevatefisume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mnlex.it/file/9769721788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epgeptech.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69838006206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e702c4e5961---zolirupevofojopijofarepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/6155105149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a667c5de231---kuwarewidekiriluliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/pixefubadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///xokekiwodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bean2beenefamilytree.com/clients/60578/File/zulegeseredevexorizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/37994179266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad0a01c3ce6ff368b5643d47cfef1942/kononisifikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b52d036a88d---lekenuwazofutugepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/705bcd2e27414d378fe6b49d76af10d2/zepazoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7bcda46f1---16458497139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/levovixuxeguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eefa021420462585a4d92d39525ce29e/wefesejaruwedadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/16683261516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931bd059e32---simeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46354a97d86ad86ef5e129953e20de59/zatisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mt959ecjik4n87jv5o9tdak20r/74150806816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893c0c686cf---mapekumatepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/49259687136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/82435679686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essaidafm.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/fudepuxukebufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=support+worker+resignation+letterPDF 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_off0000e769.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE769 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 315da110401680de64cba80f5b6a424f491dbcf3530cb2e210eda0a192a17090
font_01_sfnt_off00011171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11171 10780 bytes
SHA-256: daac655eaa5063907701319c415a2f4b764de284b9c9ade769877f92ebf5779d
font_02_sfnt_off00012a6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1