Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92b00dc0bf951ff6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 18:57:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8b0ccdf477259f56645172df60dd84f7 SHA-1: 9e409e86f9577bf46a157d24b28bcee81ca785cd SHA-256: 92b00dc0bf951ff6e1960356111cee890ca25b767bdfe0f166d818f13753b463
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm designed to direct users to compromised WordPress sites, likely to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, references 'Autocad 2004 activation code', suggesting a lure for software piracy or cracking tools. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the presence of multiple links to potentially compromised CMS uploads reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f2d988e7d---wuwolafuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nistd.in/userfiles/file/1121298612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5qdpuhspbnu5i0pbgshmi9gh0/dabavugatobedol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bc9693ad276fe59921b0c7ab5b594cd/21301354477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e7a8a7369---48703162713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b40b7b974a---kunepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c922a03fa19---10760596013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85f591783---nuvawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/vumapowanikiwetujaluwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf6a37afbb7549f6aad94934370bc7ec/48772535897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3c74cc68e2---76389253538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d3d028ab4---jafireneniravaxesuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b0cd9ffbde268fce6007dd366350495/wupupilurujigoneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rotudavid.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84646821380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/62453537375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=autocad+2004+activation+codePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC899 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 19e53e5e3cd7580a81efc8643432a3d98607a2e6b3ed8dcafd15dcb0e00563cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E0 19588 bytes
SHA-256: 4c80dfb7edf61905fe9e58402cdd7763e7eaca8732000c767fac782cb8f92092