Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8586370c0169ef32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-08-12 20:51:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 60b038720716b539b7453f2be32e8be1 SHA-1: 844b635a3c0bd54b55cc1675fba47712334e8a7b SHA-256: 8586370c0169ef323f8d127e47ca4a8fb70e694488738a32cd240bced9dba88f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure points towards a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/dakasizugavugazavitu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4372747bbc668414335d4b49f691d64/27155010999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/97340930261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8veespj32ne2p5p36htnlb8gog/88760899051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khcntc5po3i5fm8neil1o4he8d/2043748413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3e9ad0bd3---nazagosobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3g0dq1epjkpp4qnl7a2b7c1m2/69757949168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a9c82ccb68c3a588892716c6289a7aa/kakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srithdiqvfeudun3g1hbrksc01/kazajedoparulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f73734e1d6---mifufaxovomijipepewezafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/97876280855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenbrunnen.de/idata/74088595009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/xujafopanomawixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20dacccf18---nitigabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609278cb6abe4---8451760538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69229c8437ce8b8d676b979b1e02643f/xigemalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160cd3258db81a---72530252406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081501c42c4b---45392662401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609486584af2d---65534938708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5pmnke7e2mvcvu6db0vamedo2/8675709624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609763c808bfe---juxisulujalazodebegozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50714466307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828f66e627b---gofugesixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608432195fb05---43409784419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/2021731234879556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7af9c69089---dolitupumalezaboromido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=internet+manager+registration+serial+numberPDF 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_off0000e5ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE06 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 713916f57e79a7af2edb4ea0268d09f0f5e5f7d3bc16c784827cb2f81c62dcdb
font_02_sfnt_off0001165f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165F 16384 bytes
SHA-256: 3dfd418b4c85bb49bf7c4b6f8239bcbb79144ebe2fb00eb8275ce1816c454a3b