Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb82425254794ea3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:05:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: eafb54b1a1ae62343d371ef987c97c63 SHA-1: 090d46b7d7764553a6749a05d4c8b94bb70a0f31 SHA-256: bb82425254794ea3cd309089b2a69dd01621b475ad16c38b518e6b20e4982d0c
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the presence of these suspicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de2a4b8f1be---42208446440.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbffae1a35---dudexepezizolirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161236b705269e---85404584007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.net/uploads/files/54737969853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sporteambiente.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawukajisidape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roroveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/tolejubamede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dazoguzutufizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/48631041544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c995bc1723e---69171178769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracetemayonetim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bakawerokosidukejaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6399722367e1412b0fdc344f97f8a502/gilome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fst-uinsu.net/userfiles/files/71066179344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/vupalodakafugaxaxotuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f7fd1e953---43260219543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a0c0d6d4a9f4c60c102d43c0bf582d/jizixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40816c575c2566a6b5f923f67b9533ff/kaveruvugobuxusavofasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goreskyreunion.com/clients/b/ba/ba087d28c24afe6c5bc45fa062332e47/File/31267845652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3dc684974---68643618793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/13504339666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/novadunusokofilufunafusun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narellesastro.com/userfiles/files/23423213456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/38087888880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/52330703027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pelton+turbine+working+principle+pdfPDF 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_off0000d656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD656 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6D 10884 bytes
SHA-256: dc8405350fbc693fb15a771ad341c6426ee131060ddbe60f2f4fb122097302d7
font_02_sfnt_off00010757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10757 17100 bytes
SHA-256: 1a13d5c2faa059cf6597a9c16549c1a8c583e9014f4de76507406af6138f8b94