Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4c725ea3abd1772…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-24 08:22:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: e1ac8c8e6e2d69f17dcd0c9187c3ac53 SHA-1: d8af11dd15a322cc91db21bf6349e407a265d51d SHA-256: b4c725ea3abd1772d68d5dbb0c6ccc0c19e76e477963de1e2ac0c371fe259692
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. Static analysis revealed it contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or for SEO manipulation purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85528a46ae8f3a54a18b26f0ea301d95/90088080519.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i8b9v11jul50c185846a0195l3/wotoxevuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/25828643563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/kovazasuronex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/91715895053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/79785716751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziconiavip.com/uploadfck/file/wowezigopipepaxeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607178a41bc82---jimafupiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2420be0cbc02bea070099a58b9673eef/26854735146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/rotakalimorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oprandi.it/userfiles/files/43732769178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882ad56d703---84984795655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/44844937158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uul25j97ljacad0hsv99psmcl3/14258666898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbaccba705875a9dc08be331ef6d16ef/feditinategomeduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b83e5b61d2---58493685308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aaaaaa86d5---xobumizukokenuvuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/72270891600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4fe3c11af---74468546055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/10170512645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/wogimewetewosutezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ead17d7748f258da8247df5f7f49c19d/22848758248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d61ffde1bbe---8790395603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0mo1vh8t19sth0c888loq4ut5/fepazemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=best+wireless+earbuds+2019+under+50+ukPDF 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_off0000fc64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC64 11188 bytes
SHA-256: f39073c6d6d1c057a744a66758307b380e084f9db65a3daf4240494dd4c5348f
font_01_sfnt_off000116e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E4 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 5a2f3956aef1cc9319453a0d8930ef637c746f3ee327f30fad2916dbb5efef98
font_02_sfnt_off00014417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14417 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1