Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ea4ad8f476f18b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:48:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 53d68738d45c0b2c00e92d643a705bf1 SHA-1: b87556c744ef4c06de3d41ff84262f083735f7d3 SHA-256: 9ea4ad8f476f18b043f6b894fd455612770fd7b3078e8a9a87e2b4f47e51c5ef
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, many of which host other PDF files. This suggests a tactic to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content through seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/125b2e491615c6d0c5a71efbcfc30292/61547788836.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c6f8edf89---xuwojuxezotubazevafeduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da324db54201b64729848bcc96600e7/43309683305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f1117e8c4---31399868868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/xugogutozipajemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3743957daa410a39dc6ed9d67e4ccb65/7934446100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c90944fcf6188e06790622253243e7eb/kanezomametoruwexejumixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhm2k78ehduu1vfmj01sldngo7/31957089632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/gawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/gujokenutipuxarafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ds4d1ba2kgp8rft071tq80f6q3/87930574441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c434ee8187b---bezukulemaguzojetuvadoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/565e10c6f2f047383822f9951bd0fce4/wasujowavadakebamajisas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s58o3duo3fui4tuo1ik0ia4i27/81278503363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32117226818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jjcvamfomc9ki64p4poak1vr0/diximusemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/37553760065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdf71f75de5---9384828643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e327d50bcb19ce4d7aae9ae67d583d44/ronebufegugatomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823d588e365---wozatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af896c59212---viporibiwosatadovemeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienchidan.org/uploads/files/nilizusodilekiwodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c75f6c9385---78572383350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pkynfe.net/userfiles/file/jonufosime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/7511319159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cia6jgvmnq32de4p8j4ele68n0/65686150968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=engage+with+sentencePDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF78 10312 bytes
SHA-256: aaa7f4120d0751cba3f7893b053ad35a0b770882b1828abedf1e41a07f72d4e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B8 18568 bytes
SHA-256: baa9a15f5d1ca5513db76ba2c593440408b98000ef5d0bf12419e00c4c1152eb
font_02_sfnt_off00011714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11714 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1