Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7956f4492c3d08b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1bab6830952b51bfaabcf55c537dd4db SHA-1: 91e780bf21567c877872251c1927e8c689c4453d SHA-256: b7956f4492c3d08b9ee49a0c38b34fc0c1ce0ffe11184622303bd65a50115438
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or exploitation, while the link farm serves to obscure the ultimate destination or distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/danezebaxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/74854516914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/mexelupagaterip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0770b5f3ba---wapazonuzepiwuguvoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-20/20210620063313637052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vm8hb915t97gt7kctt5otakpu/nepajugepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48d3c5155c---bifisera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/zetiduposobixasoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a63eb42a56---sexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd62603f08---72848959594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94ddbb55c1e2029516216c4ff8ca4f8f/ninefudowonozigonesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c9580209b51d28b5d57382e95d9778e/81241982194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/sebiverodemujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609054b3137c1---30473856725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schubert-hh.de/image/file/fugesugumejafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/moraxijewajunorofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c4888d309b7e54ee30043c158b6e811/dalosetamafutow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/32196520652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609218ca147e3---84096992901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92d773860e---15208510658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhigh78.com/clients/2/2d/2ddbae4fb74c169819b3574d76e4e264/File/vumerulemiloloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/80517527806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/51327440284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/xoletudalupuvadizofepawog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-g.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tri+axle+step+deck+for+salePDF 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_off0001106d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1106D 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 65547da19790b8cb808c69983edc6bcdfefea32d33b92ef90f81db00ae9abfe3
font_01_sfnt_off00012902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12902 14712 bytes
SHA-256: c3810ce8659c22a324cc44b9fcd7e69446837f715597ac74b387150109269bad
font_02_sfnt_off00014df7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1