Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac3eabbdb9177d61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 05:01:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0c64b28354798eac747a5bc52ef549f2 SHA-1: d9740808b638dea9af0c1a2805f05204c635e18c SHA-256: ac3eabbdb9177d6191ce119f9088d6fb03400cf253e61e4d4c5b033450b4db3a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supported by heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads, suggests a redirection scheme. This pattern is commonly used to distribute malware or lead users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/384g4imnh9rc6v0o0fu4ku7upf/15883301694.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928d7d90232---78225266385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimdaiphatsteel.com/Images_upload/files/kisejajefupozebanazivoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bak.vn/upload/files/xonokuzujofivokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2d468e281---70934952110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a34fa26d084d06155ded052044e9e9/62678152815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd4cbab645---paxibuvowiwulunupinepazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/56850940386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f5ff404a7---zivalitanawimurakibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/dexojeduguvobefipiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/zozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607064fc29e14---fewuvijidisenitonir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092de96a210e---felabalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2766f32c39f288d48fd53d4aa781f20/leripejuvovijigaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb8f577c330e439db3a27a9c305a201c/85662268751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eab0a9f680---roxezetimotaxejajexetenad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47db40895d280a55d1fdb0b7d044c9ab/24149195006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/60289257235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891af891fc6---61444029590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/10731394445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a21338c3574e915acac891793f8fe5a3/xonoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d6e93fdeb9b9f963a41982758291a96/32804196919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/tivapupobupokuwagokalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/jaxujuzokudezoribiniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/womapoxukifow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d8c1e9ace---xibinasubeluzid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=frases+verbs+englishPDF 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_off000104d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D4 17420 bytes
SHA-256: eb69a8738c3e0f50d58e1dcda30f9d895aa6d394722f8d92425288b0e51f426b
font_01_sfnt_off00013271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13271 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A88 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 99706a78401dca63895ae13f08f67bb8629e3420924f01f845b542ee99c7c75d