Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98f6c706175b8349…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 10:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 93351d1394363466835e8b69844fd1f9 SHA-1: c4e1126ba429f505d3686ca043a2943108ad2fc1 SHA-256: 98f6c706175b83498b82e47d3167e78fd36b550337d8c805842ec328fcca19af
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is identified as malicious by an ML classifier and exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to leverage these sites for hosting or redirecting traffic. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft plugin uploads indicate a pattern of distributing links across various compromised platforms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bba4873bf9---92350965144.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866b9e55bfb---podojazopedagovijevujo.pdf
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/befovufimarit.pdf
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/zonevijoremawafo.pdf
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/857501504.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8960ac678---24445277767.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a44db55ecd945608882508c590ea22a/86897495655.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a346828f163---losisakaluxexoxiferi.pdf
    • http://diclenakliyat.com/userfiles/file/18793512784.pdf
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo9r1fes1v861da0fedi35u942/85442229980.pdf
    • http://www.39koratmachinery.com/file_upload/files/lokuz.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d761280330---43291069084.pdf
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/tazotelowogedo.pdf
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/53207129218.pdf
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f5e40a265---71253683793.pdf
    • https://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog//file/23105364868.pdf
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdd9123c2b---84397632735.pdf
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/lifilejubem.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d43587cf60---fegogaduwinosekilifaruzi.pdf
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm9sfg8a7f44bs1aonc6fpl194/jenoxoteribolagulabed.pdf
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/mebozonu.pdf
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/12852214330.pdf
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/71115349371.pdf
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0382780d49e85b47b20be5bf669b33e/pakomazorekepub.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6f4a4dd2dd1f800e90716cc6d93e59d/lafavopukiwoxeribux.pdf
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1e7fe7d4d---39254105003.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=neuraxis+in+humans
    • 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_off0000ebd2.bin
be9757365b698aa0b0fe61d7ca7a94108b5d05d75076401a98c9a1e52e1023ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD2 10288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102b6.bin
e5ab00ad53bcdf611e6afba7f2cfa71c8d781d410e2b53762e1f47b963a62cdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B6 18932 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000132e6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132E6 16792 bytes