Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6037785dd06711b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 20:51:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 22ccc3bd5f2d670dceabc825b3b84aa6 SHA-1: 8a4141a38e9f9b61a8c6f636ddc1ec8bd83fc04f SHA-256: a6037785dd06711bf22f68bc543f3b201bbe3452df3778b051c0a852b40f343a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristics indicate a pattern of SEO manipulation and the use of compromised CMS upload storage for hosting the malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://piau-po21inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/90138591909.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eqg2fq7jq7q1oof6v3cp3m69t/kagadepatapukokesolobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b9e501d6d---jotabutodamizewamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c44f3f5c09299a0741eb5d7daad8779b/mavovalitejererem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image//files/bomemasaforadozejaxebabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/16084802394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/br32s9s7lajt3jvce08hhfclri/geligexilufezufujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/18415861147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bdfc17a36afd132bce7a9486f6c6dcf/javotofavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec00e81bb5cd80e61e7f4b3c5ae0cf8/vunojapitemozexavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df1fea37f60---kenefipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f33e351320---xiraxojukarebudagaxuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://em-mould.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60589155379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad462939e5---reregefolixot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ojps4dbkbavfba3t9ef5e5jg0/nobibefugomoranusoxotesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///paxabelogetefepikeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wphs69.com/clients/1/13/13dd0a1135c99f886ff4006aa3c820ba/File/12119011408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/kerezizikopimatujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/80848124068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f04518ae3---84024771881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchboys.org/userfiles/files/29748875560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covinahigh1980.com/clients/1/14/147ee80f0cf2e08ca1b5067d21485a43/File/jipagawofobaxafam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henanshuangxin.com/d/files/90742170360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqgsmtm0l37cnabosr5ckc4ti2/miselolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=articles+of+confederation+draftedPDF 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_off00011eb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB3 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 0caadc9e4a3116fec00e710b022e5299e1e8027f73fd3f40dc4dfd71ef3f3862
font_01_sfnt_off00013688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13688 16420 bytes
SHA-256: 67630579fd209e864355f58bf348d05a44d13ca5d6741196379121efe103b82f
font_02_sfnt_off000160c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1