Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a429081aebd26d56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:27:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: de44fa2a58e7685f4d9d8c9041a3efe6 SHA-1: 784ac3832cf61d458bd58524e5dadf7aacccf891 SHA-256: a429081aebd26d56a3a458a643ba0b2c50c92ef22c440e6cf3d3800ce7c3224f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the link farm behavior suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95esg55s7ge2n581c4gsltkef1/neluzopedazolapot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e60928b5f2---50754584714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/53267182491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e26a03590---72772500666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b135ee8e5c---77627613066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fadisuvotojifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a7e272a2a---nosapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/pebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0519f9d8543828bd39d0ae477f9de163/wawosoxijepuguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hoa1eeabuaqfi132p8rq68bimv/betopogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobile-translator.eu/app/webroot/media/files/14492827194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/lazevebisujunujafixelagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca650db27f---zikukesekurulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0fa6a30d4e---48409816592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/31713604528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e70c4daaa---zavupitajugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f94159dadd1---wawexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62434012486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/88368645885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/44281336445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/tofewilowujinimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womomumupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723b48ddcb4---80809499765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6051b1751---gedujonakedixeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+solution+in+chemistryPDF 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_off0000e7e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E8 19276 bytes
SHA-256: fba4b3a2544fdaa2f3722ccf9a7a13497f6e3e5869fe68c01c37534cbae06601
font_01_sfnt_off00011a2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2B 10760 bytes
SHA-256: fd7899330ccd53b4ac8afb7b6f6358c8c2c911a96af5f074af471815b8f07f10
font_02_sfnt_off000132c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1