Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9bccc03aa8390f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-20 02:02:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 222eeb0efb1b6dc19007585a37f108d7 SHA-1: 0fda813ca9498a0f463b172023ea98310eb3f806 SHA-256: b9bccc03aa8390f0b7977a0f3ed0ecb2846183830ee34f524d0f06872ca7a73e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm heuristic suggests a non-standard use of PDF content. The document body is unreadable binary data, providing no direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2677b9997---motomolepafazujan.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92lun1oto1ii5iblh1443upq4t/vinidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/pezevuxobagimedonomumoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb12100ad2a---52854021455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internationalnetworksolutions.net/files/nadevobofuvejubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc94e41d4c7ab13a4534669c78b09ee/57032719926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/82867372062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/21662047026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8f22e5e8867a4919a5c9e088f14279b/84215397480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13de69f7bd---gupipewomov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90540758832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/satuxukefakofuduvuzakusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/wifiwekutuwadodosokarevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/tafipuralefoxonela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/bemuzemobanamejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satybharat.com/ci/userfiles/files/24128307587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f9eb2f505---75836472610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watdoenwevandaag.nl/upload/41840573875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59722994997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgldhcn7km2pkgnpdpesbqkuhn/gidiporiborinuliletixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8515888638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petersonhigh.com/clients/33446/File/68502074600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daca9be3a27---43282826155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9n7b6rcj3e9cnjbah0dfib3anh/bimabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=pirates+of+the+caribbean+curse+of+the+black+pearl+streamPDF 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_off0000e13e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE13E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF950 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 482c8007843199700c9937a9f79de7cb91b64ca1dbb993b30b4cb8937f9916e9
font_02_sfnt_off000126f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F5 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 9e95e653382cfa7dffcc5243f890b67621aefbb49a1d92cc00a2f72097e93890