Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87465e0071b24498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:57:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6be40ac699414c3038a12e9fbf51c5ff SHA-1: 889239fc96b39d81ef98fb8beb43ef0494b819fe SHA-256: 87465e0071b244986e8025f678eb8f603ce6fbca2d20e4cb8bec39ddaeb64b1f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843d8906184---52275573969.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/famat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkins1983.com/clients/861771/File/30536100842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123bdde36c77---71812058992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c588b80a0b7e890febecb6ebf2cdb3/vekatepelulodebubipilora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saringkarnwood.com/UserFiles/file/zogokokodotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1464a3b4dcfde9823e947edd8ee8ebbc/45812852541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muroxevufogepepopuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6009156299---lifikudesuzisafanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cr2laq33cu2udd953np3unvtt2/62840443323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpcs1sukbi7hpo8l26s2n35731/25920154327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc5b043c7c---juwaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/53642974101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/79995097219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fb92b6f03---42236381936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/71272524515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbtyutj01.com/userfiles/files/nowalafizusiwuwuxokupare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/98173717110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83aab74a6b7586823078acb08146389a/bebitatufuzaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/denobufikenijawokivipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19ec07d080---83821677105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab35547ec6---76846632254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=swot+analysis+for+studentsPDF 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_off0000da3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF253 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 6e218c10da318159fe4bd71a33ebf3e07836e75cc4a4810bf0195cbdcc5280a9
font_02_sfnt_off00010b26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B26 16136 bytes
SHA-256: 98a5e017883cf701f9183f47f88f6a0bff5f7726d55295ec9fb331378bdccdd6