Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a980c427feb654fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:27:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0c896ef13fd3cf79dc03be46544a79ce SHA-1: 6a726935e3b0c5c9d6a6cd69d94e6f04e704c1b1 SHA-256: a980c427feb654fe3e70ed7ece9c72465678388b4ba8a5ad36e6498d8cccdb80
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or for SEO poisoning. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608459765b1fd---natosemewinepu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/wodinejozugigekafaxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608701b2b98d9---tagunisolotadubifarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fc5e56652---xurumiwubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexus-study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/37921623226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luligang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69677416038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adf7cdeaf62---kokutozupevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/zusijonizorubegozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/28487362287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/7869760313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564f448b7ca6628736021b11274a37df/1669828109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a48f4c0249---51930293182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/bawofurufepiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukienmiennam.com/userupload/files/44493173919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/tezomolej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0c0da9hmrk7vjhherunikptr6/vexegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b052dc3d3---23097710290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/repiseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnmpaint.com/sdcc/images/file/zexagozokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/getuwivanel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ac44b0e718f40b521ab0a015577615e/mironabufigiwuvenonugozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehrobrigheim.de/upload/files/79234710667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=predicate+adjectives+worksheet+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000d12b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD12B 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 7e6d7e1b2e174154c976e4c5e33a4e330873cad3ea7529af12d668088969ddce
font_01_sfnt_off0000eadd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEADD 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 7acc3b6dae4df3f2ea55d56d8a6a24162d412778af9fb7bab4afd17ddf97ca09
font_02_sfnt_off00011659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11659 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1