Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2d522749725136a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-23 08:55:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 467e3217b08ef5432be77c98b30834dc SHA-1: 348a72f995d7416f378f7c0da9eb2e02f376a2a1 SHA-256: a2d522749725136aca37bb5e8f12d88d99993598bf3076966129c49a1336796d
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of embedded JavaScript suggests potential for further malicious actions. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to direct users to external, potentially compromised, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ca7312c54---renakisewilamazeka.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gukj910ngc51g68jbfdnlaau1/36043556610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb5sg27bghj0i40j3m03iu9eht/21370534114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaoducvietnamtv.com/images/ckeditor/files/filukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaizousha.com/js/upload/files/winake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61201481645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ba4cbe2fc---kumamemexemisutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/77634741174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608986fd2a3bb---72569001903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c88b217fa7---datepulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/bujenumelageba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelpenza58.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28202185781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townsendrogersfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/91/912616e09393d205379ff76530a10a1f/File/tipidabaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e005c10ba---zasomorovusezubabesukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a65e36245---38778665709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/pifukibutejurujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapiwamis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs65.org/clients/b/bb/bb65574a37642f7fe3135935df861e67/File/ratowuvikekawumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/51121255730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/nosuloniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/29736681643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf4de6a361dd249d9602911a6490425/maneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.campacinter.com/image/upload/File/gamebugoxabetat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://self-storage.sg/images/uploadedimages/file/26697348077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=undyne+the+undying+simulator+gamejoltPDF 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
    • https://pan.baidu.com/s/1FeVUC-91NgUMYcECmZ149g��������������1111�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF53 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 8e0324a8310b1dfb5c93805f73ce292feea4bdd7b6ab09ab7602b603ee4d51ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10219 13160 bytes
SHA-256: 1ee3459ceb214298a985bbe65cdedf674a858596e3a3012095a910285c5ce4f2
font_03_sfnt_off00012af1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF1 11044 bytes
SHA-256: ee5de486800bf4a43646dc0b57faf72f63fbbcc77d5c77d96e429e42c8cb7626