Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e7f8449c363cfda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-26 08:48:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 91d9feecf39a681892c2c0ddedfbec1a SHA-1: 528461d59fc3c4c10cf2d3a115ab3d8e32a8a556 SHA-256: 9e7f8449c363cfda1641b620014c4f79af01fb6dfaf72dd22a8beb5b236794c8
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within the 'formcraft' plugin's file upload directory. This suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcacd49056---xawiwuvewujexerosarixo.pdf
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/43931663564.pdf
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdd3b4226a2---jajowefubebuparigu.pdf
    • https://duvanco.be/docs/files/12695855119.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5e3eeffcc4c9392064cd4f07353347b/winenexixusiforedojorolu.pdf
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/jemuw.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4a863b609---7593623566.pdf
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/9039046337.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607359e50fc27---noputibakanodajusiped.pdf
    • https://www.micron21.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebusupar.pdf
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a45a44493---48789958190.pdf
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fir2quhpp6tkls52rbn6qo7sk2/26150223502.pdf
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbdbe270e7---61259025026.pdf
    • http://bigandtallking.com/userfiles/file/levejalezezuzepat.pdf
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/16187514318.pdf
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b828648ef75---sekenomegavelu.pdf
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f64190036eb5c884cea0803f1d713f14/bolokoka.pdf
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/xiwamegubosugikoxelor.pdf
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461aa55c8f64ed9873369b3b7d97aa49/wawefevanasenoropewize.pdf
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f17a3996c6c3f7ae2f41af8a378148/24081652614.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b88f5ed0b---57988370194.pdf
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607608bade2af---zunaboloweganoxexevej.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+empty+my+dyson
    • 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_off0000f9fb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9FB 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001120d.bin
4d4735fe2c6bc0bb6ebfcf28b6917611b9f61a80e7234759a79d93e1d76c9d51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1120D 17480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013fdf.bin
0c34ea46a3018509b8070454731ae7b4287ec59cfe2cea882cb4026a9434a2a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FDF 10344 bytes