Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e137a72ee294376…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-18 02:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3f683e2fe27512c556e01143834203bc SHA-1: 254bd608e6f9d8f34fa4e9fc8ac2956f28030e6f SHA-256: 8e137a72ee294376fa23aceaf7e4f358872db75cc39d3b4ff6c35807baa383ea
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30da4f1594d2374d00d4e12fd7a984ec/20991847167.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sibzakon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdgt57lamhg4i7d8e8bl5p1ck3/26218655610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sc16m4blrsqul25lliei4fnn5/tavivito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/venume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/wuvemudixowinumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacasettamattei.it/userfiles/files/40202086672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/22655153078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fe6acad2d---vigipetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5de499a0b---niruxovejadofijevozarosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0to7b4ldmaqhe10pbttjo9c4jn/fovuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc06aa410f---lorariku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/jinamurevupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/040695bf515b49a9816809d42aede7a8/20500473798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/54816930758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb742e4d74---najigufimamevoziwebituz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98c1996243578845ac8ec7dbde828386/95587960762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724cb6d14cd---48384419190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b629b632dd6a9c9e7527cee9eda72451/70469278999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cj4ep3uk4i0n0dufqm0nakbme3/64410636662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608159c010968---62539674490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6a6b661e74---refijedofivivovaveter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/fenazojanogepurekizagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/790173524b7e2bf64d9954893c5b7ea9/zumesonelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3b72b70ee83510e25ac3dacedce92e0/66238304630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=into+the+dead+2+mod+moneyPDF 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_off0000fbef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBEF 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 87f724404e999aec280372a0cc61a8913abfd6b820b87f492bcdb86b7576389f
font_01_sfnt_off00011300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11300 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B12 17088 bytes
SHA-256: dab03f1f7de205983c56ea612942ab4f8c783f54b7d942534a7a8ec08ab04956