Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97d6216457b63b44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 08:50:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 2cfa9e9219e135048f0a21e80389bae3 SHA-1: bc8b2edc515f7a9a888a470fcafcdbd0452cf950 SHA-256: 97d6216457b63b443d6f2f868d52b556506c056e1eede28dd226ffddebd63a87
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 numerous compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure aligns with a malicious link farm. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://heritagecarletonplace.com/clients/c/c2/c23aa4fb54f25340752d20cfcff880b2/File/38583019124.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8c0b5704a---98457582965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8066c1e11a6d7c506981f691663d3858/zoguzedobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b03d4800d5---89155865009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/vegisudejomomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58b15589780b1f09aa6318eda7849d96/89689436508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa0cd955c25463a876aa1427f4fc78ad/bekipenuwutinuluwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d8f2eb7e66b563b83441fedc3028dd/96315702315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e91087867b9d8fa35d9c0bab4cf6b677/ramikabemisamolesul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p56mitmefs0l52lulpp62hdf4l/zenarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/ligemojoratebidixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/labixokujadedixopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32c8d6a8ba---36226899578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/bovutevudanifitozuvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b0db2ad50---59955227813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed29c0cf42be088220ea4432b6c6799f/75559784537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752893588dd---vajowibodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballstonfamilymedicine.com/clients/861402/File/52157465265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/jijunelefufaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210728200134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/18283969120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jestbogiem.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/kisivupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a0afdb5e3---25970995917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3llnmuejfu5fu05cbj20dim3r/66732533979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=hidroxido+de+rubidio+nombre+tradicionalPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC6B 1860 bytes
SHA-256: 562d39cc93351683f3420870a5578826c1285db13c691c08f99be18f4980e560
font_01_sfnt_off0000c51d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC51D 15160 bytes
SHA-256: 4911c9ef60d72798e383bb44f5e30b2da32c170c83b0b629b85e36cdb06847fe
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB02 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 63f0966f202914bef75da379cac0ab5d902777e64e5f34fefcb93d378e3c51a3
font_03_sfnt_off00010374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10374 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1