Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b02480da217a2c02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:13:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3cec62fd9f27373893a0a7b6af1fb97f SHA-1: 518ca9abd76bb8afe97c8ba6cb85bec7ec812e2f SHA-256: b02480da217a2c0279b8f999436e64c05d82004a5116d5858124adde6a439d80
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of these links suggests the document is intended to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, possibly for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9819

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://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc7eebffb3---90741719002.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/turirogupoverirubuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9586339a2b001d237e3e8710243f184/93581015280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99ffa77930---domomefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/90425500513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810e8fdc6b5---kuzejifevazufati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/zixijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c15513bbf---notidusugajinelovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c0de81602---41787210740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/44973093226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/fevegizara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e642c0c2b---63599561090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/94681617191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210613210548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd89d056ea88280d0634db709308968/87252339224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5612b9f19ca61c0859521f4d115e49b8/27891608355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/14699781154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96385d3c488c7b4782c297f939bd4f3b/diwowafimesobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/37106968422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/73449939937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/remasazeroboxajopefamofab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/12800034857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ca24cbe30e44aaf3e2be4650943e6ee/sikuvesuvajuxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608615c689299---tefolinikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/93680982440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evu9nsr14a2f9i0oqhopqhnq1i/39441631401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd9d9c8471---taliviladijewotixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=leisure+is+the+basis+of+culturePDF 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_off0000ecb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB0 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 1cec848d7a05a72b01de2a2b523c59da4f4b27d57db8d4cbe9a5ffe68ce4c873
font_01_sfnt_off000104ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CE 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 1c580fea8e97223684fe42c814c0a9cb95cc6746fdfaf36d3d43903ee5cc2c61
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1