Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a273243f30956cc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-08-02 02:02:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 16def1783a6b8fbf12b1725dc59de1f9 SHA-1: 46bb9bb15ef778b6ebc5d6da4f0e2376c97c90de SHA-256: a273243f30956cc1b6dfb74d6fa3dbca06fc9104151d0bd159546a4bda4dbc4d
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content, likely through a phishing or social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079eca5d3f0c---mujupevitevepif.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2bab295bcd---36485552550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.org/uploads/files/83425249539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rks8juqvk8s7mmh54b2rmgddgb/febibexeluwozeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a818f73807---70641477015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/fuleba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--m1age8bh.xn--p1ai/files/file/rasegewebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/pudibiwukuwixaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93dhaaq8ka0565egv6jbofg0q0/10198409388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eprobatdz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biguxuvafodeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72850589812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d63c79a055987cc8e7cb63329fee914b/toletoral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/wodov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkkarsin.pl/img/upload/files/68551520576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8j61hc431ttakegbfg56dticsf/53821266702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/notirabuxapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8e38474d2---jasepexunalewokubare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba6478740c---gugijorezeselulafagibobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210507072413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/jagejapugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnsonsdynastyincfamilyassociation.com/clients/10108/File/bikawipisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b30587b17068c8062a7bf4b324e244a/65042142701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/pakilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5cd09b714---vakosiwokavaputepivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=battery+saver+pro+apkpurePDF 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_off0000e9c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C3 18228 bytes
SHA-256: 0c26c72d0c43234d272a30410ca9bacc1e53ab3853c295d166bd7a9df020c08c
font_01_sfnt_off000117df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117DF 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 15f788dbf2e04f9118c146271a09de6926c13b789b8b9c3566db68b7c994c5e6
font_02_sfnt_off00012fce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1