Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8796458b5d2003c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-08-27 01:07:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 343706911036d0f29150132ccec7008a SHA-1: 1673d671f419eb2ae6ec7f70cf41ddf3c45850a2 SHA-256: 8796458b5d2003c555c12f7ce8152e1741f7914ddc593c076c29e3828b09d121
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristic firings confirm the presence of external URIs and a link farm pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c1ee3b3b6---wilajina.pdf
    • http://nkcophs50threunion.com/clients/0/01/014062e559e26c1cf0711bcec4e573ae/File/pirodizofaja.pdf
    • http://stmrcstvm.com/userfiles/file/xibile.pdf
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85718471079.pdf
    • http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/pumemonuj.pdf
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/nixotutubunok.pdf
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbade210a3---69025725627.pdf
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/roxodibilupebanas.pdf
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8738ae2093---83066878518.pdf
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/womexuzawaxajo.pdf
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7823e6290---1542721164.pdf
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5d8f392be---jogajebu.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2057114a2e92817ffa3336c970ed8a1/wejejukovup.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39lsacedc2njrvqarmdpop3n2h/46467859065.pdf
    • https://iword.de/userfiles/file/sonelilasixajaremi.pdf
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqn28lurr0oqdklc8qjh5m7e00/27715796695.pdf
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/lalozowofedabaf.pdf
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e179b0105341b2cae477de94a3549e/sibofitoravazotedav.pdf
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/80828925621.pdf
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee168902a61---tajow.pdf
    • http://pasted-radio.de/web/files/datunefijipe.pdf
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/vivin.pdf
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/5092914366.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/kexomowotu.pdf
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb75974828a---46330870877.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=places+to+go+in+monterey
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010c63.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C63 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012475.bin
4148c717e3cdb59db8a6eb3bf6f3f7967f54ca3b7dc3ffa4054a947f07f3fc01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12475 16784 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015017.bin
4ded29a53240d860363e181aedaa17d2edb3e78d2d0c6fc8c0b9557ca7e43f5c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15017 10688 bytes