Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9487f7d1d826d19e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.3 KB Created: 2021-06-18 17:03:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 62c3287b56d33c3890e7a5c277e9ed4e SHA-1: e2296e588dd3541eaabbd842ade1d37411a71d1b SHA-256: 9487f7d1d826d19e98d4443ee5620d7d04f7fa3af76e4454df03dddac8f40f39
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute further malicious content via these compromised sites.

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 http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd3a4780a2a1a4aa707c28d639c479a0/54511187191.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6c1787c8e---27680761785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758501872da---70329496940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0ad69807e053d44bffb96903a5b2cc4/81102294941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/58694873486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099967a5fe57---nezetotixibegisagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/lomirusumirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb60a0a74c---nifigopiferapexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/40711873212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19366fa8e48b85f128ffc0a26280d02f/8293461465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77e60db79a---7894105935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/82852242478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b29332844c---77970345766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e808922c75f2a6784438915c818c3069/vovujitatidoviwakixomutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=tokyo+ghoul+season+3+episode+1+english+dubbedPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB953 5400 bytes
SHA-256: fa9d2b26900ada50150d83e5d690fd547f35b7b64f32e0da9977a85e2335fd80
font_01_sfnt_off0000cba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA4 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 828e7f9f357914c03745c04306626197a5f5f6f1abf47c6540cf08701f5d40a9
font_02_sfnt_off0000eddf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333