Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 991feeae63361f3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:09:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4aa3ffd0b5fc84b3b494316c09c3b6e8 SHA-1: a40fd15a198501f78b936a12dc803d7e2f10121c SHA-256: 991feeae63361f3e7f4f4fdd9d756c46a062a15636859bccc3067ed9ab04387b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user consumption but rather as a vehicle for these links. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to direct users to potentially malicious or SEO-manipulated content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=microsoft+power+bi+learning+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54558e1a935d1266426eca6b90c8586f/53782031591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/42130338877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/3494442164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5ba9d94fa---20085709535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/jawosavonifevutimonugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robotsuk.com/luckingbros.co.uk/userfiles/files/31717087710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgu7etksintkav1ijs24f6mi87/72013227549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9rb728r89tn1ph79jbfghp1u2/kunifona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b3f892f0f2afe8366f681c2e2deea9/dupagavitawimoluxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/diwibuxolazabegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4bc04b8ac7a852e263ab932d137a7a9/gunaxasawuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863cda550bf---60529031055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61a140c5935a88bce3625dc123fb41af/1602554124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsis.com/upload/ckfinder/files/2071707909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/67344774812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfhs1978reunion.com/clients/56625/File/66064366130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1acd8e0e7---lekafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2190d1928a---97853013379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba349bc432b---77511448335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d00959951eb---85162582575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/40497578733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/vifezamosuvutabilolabajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natproperty.com/userfiles/files/vikawixapabipelowiratuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/povavusuvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC593 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 05b3f23dd3eeafa44e547e16fdae981d79252315dd20aea8b2fdb6e94d7fcc4c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DF 12904 bytes
SHA-256: 47ce741915b22b59bc938f98215fbef86c3e17d623618cbf2f486829c768f39e