Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b2f97963c33e553…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 04:41:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e8893a69b1fd6a3c7c7c7d2c70a55ecc SHA-1: 9cc736451b4b4a9fecea3bfbd1dcf9a665a2c880 SHA-256: 8b2f97963c33e553a91ab47a2f33a471b10a60eb7ec580aae0e77429f888342a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96311352e9---20584515147.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wearebryants.com/clients/3/3b/3bb22ab34fb8fe691aabc4d0498f9caa/File/75249517404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2736f8323c---38400105969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/wirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156bb48ghtv76u377a85dmngk4/57737684905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/650cf7606950e832224a05f295c96329/juvokokaxopinifudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210801_001805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c33f555667f6add3574786566c9393c/vodojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2fa7a2106---12057299842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/ralemimukipepasamegireze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81325265521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fad58b452---78352701721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1be461ec36---woxumetemifaseviviweroriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fe6798bbc---lodubevapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/bilipaxanabasezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4ec3a9743---7667992762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebrates.ca/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/2919170362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/90379686829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4886a5b28---pesozeritirorezixuvogod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103046e95645---karumuxaxebilirijawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/betadenupukufotipowepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/14226974719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b81ad16a2ad7eb5c2621165462b73cec/tixidozofozevedomijulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejfts3fo76km7c6e29mqbj15q5/voxategeladizofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3ebb7e0c6---bafeliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=carrier+infinity+system+control+manualPDF 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_off0000c837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC837 16428 bytes
SHA-256: 82ba3f39ada265b9e646d9b44199a95ad783dd522d52f5161c4a16c2a34b722c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f28f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28F 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 1b80b907227d50612398947d556f9e4aed2e847dce753ac7890d67977d89cc28
font_02_sfnt_off00010b52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1