Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95f3e75e029b32e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 12:42:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b8884c7cd2102aece736c4abb23bb797 SHA-1: fd80cfa8359dc30f61011acb255ab3a4f00ead1a SHA-256: 95f3e75e029b32e4666b772c2e4dac7fa7f9337459ffbb2c81f3a97f265af948
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, many of which are WordPress installations hosting PDF files. This suggests the document is used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+hace+frio+mean+in+spanish
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cd8d7cf81---mewemuripixatimaradas.pdf
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/danixulusenego.pdf
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ababebc9b08---nurokubev.pdf
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72502468153.pdf
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/85710470254.pdf
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b96e641c5751cc0d742d6e6f358ef78/jaginonuxa.pdf
    • https://micro-churches.net/uploads/file/wutobadagimukomidewome.pdf
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/defajekujutepisekixuf.pdf
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iq8t2kn496sq94k4fdmanj9608/fedufevobopovep.pdf
    • https://pabrikangka.com/contents//files/womasumodorit.pdf
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d87c82233b---sowikoraramarubigaxiluk.pdf
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50a2bf373a4b70ae2d17dff4934a419c/wolofix.pdf
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/47232142934.pdf
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d5a38d95f---vowesuwojoxet.pdf
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mh27cakinlvfsu8sr6ei68s61g/1027981085.pdf
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/zikunepesifigufitopesa.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba88eb5cc2b---meraligupabu.pdf
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac628ec6db2---44847051698.pdf
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dtv0vi1fehju89r1l2fch13nn0/sawomigixosipinesolutuv.pdf
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abuhelcqtqhdop4qegosj2n0s3/bizelekiluzapepo.pdf
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b376c4d469d---57274264174.pdf
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf977bb9ef5---vikutezeriposimuxami.pdf
    • 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_off0000efa1.bin
5a40dac1c0bcf549c02b1d302f3262c7f5eef550499530a570178249b5a756d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA1 10832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010879.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10879 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001208b.bin
7b6d7e35c063fb02268fafaa44551063253805f47f0a4c2dd728432a9f92f118
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1208B 18452 bytes