Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6869cb86553d3f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:27:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4c9dc8754552bda2829ac5ecb07996ed SHA-1: 8c16091fb699f6d2ff079e4efeedbe7d29a5bccb SHA-256: a6869cb86553d3f1d17dbc18094139f7eae3f23ee1dc0200f4d802a11b942dfa
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a link farm or redirection scheme designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the interpretation of these links as part of an attack chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vowel+and+consonant+in+bengali PDF link annotation
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e4f3f2cf3---28641855261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/josikumosoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96d3d007d5894a3b3e90947000098945/xevugibolokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3e6a98732---vafekuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/1620966393127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnpqch1isrv16fc4crdamujbt2/22710088646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/xogifelodafagigepagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607380f5dd61b---lowalawuxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c1e7146e801aec3343b8e5f1c42d284/xutasujuzode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/pizime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd1299b7b3---60979889750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/64442979875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42987860013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/246e9b82d818121011677c3017403393/xonofokojixivolota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6096f36e9d451f78717fd9147ac52731/molaxekubigevonepapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/xarelupopet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0uq55k9aosogqskcclpiipddrg/mozuponabude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalton-english.com/userfiles/file/57161568861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/11448388582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberia-ex.com/images/blog//file/remujuwujagefilijefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.com/upload/userfiles/file///fepusomozego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/kafujotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf900850103---63870271771.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13655 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3d63f173342003c62a86c726d4d5a85e7f52d44cf06618766a4fa08a0866bf
font_01_sfnt_off00014b88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001639a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1639A 20528 bytes
SHA-256: 10af0e4365d968a9afe0e5af29304b721f25e585326c4bcd53289a2fe8b2f154
font_03_sfnt_off0001976c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1976C 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 9f4a56458d2d4655189440595cbc3ecbd454fa2d27b29e7281ae3cd37d7d63af