Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a47c05a54aef88ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 13:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3ee87927e15e4c52786b17248305ca5e SHA-1: 22c6a7d9b34ba7ef8afc0e0b1afa29a8fddf566e SHA-256: a47c05a54aef88cad2cb6713b0b1d512a45d73ddd097930bb8d7200a8f6c4ff5
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is used for malicious redirection. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stink+bugs+in+spring PDF link annotation
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/2075139788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8b33cf3f03ac0af92777bf2b39db09a/416800181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cdc31d041e---texutowago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d30a7c9eafd830fb84c1e34622c3b40a/nuvefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d9df66cd3---pitufekagifazozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coopmong.com/ckupload/files/kekijetulujamigob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/jedapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e1ed57664---51236897878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/37626388176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gg8ibmfes5us327n9j9j2atkg3/10612046435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/44094721797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd620a4902---timalisuvidijugemakudino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f12d5b3262108907cfed2c342e42ff89/83793213880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/pugilabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/rofosuzar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e34d0049f2---60996870250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qa8qr185imj8t6ldcolqmh5lu0/47964818642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livinglearningandworking.org/clients/e/e0/e05af8355f71d8da3aa90f500b9284b3/File/kodosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/028e33b3123607f8d8c54c031c143c21/70556682576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antae.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/29662218890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22c1601b785433b20710ddff66ebda2f/joxofosabunupadapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/202161852219549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11507 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012d19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D19 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 8cce6361d412e7a3f0d3809693c39cc62ccc84b90d50d2fcbea488e9b77b90ef
font_02_sfnt_off0001594d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1594D 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 60c564ccfce5a88f4cbb20f2db5796708880558ca83d815a50ea616893771965