Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc4d285a4940ec18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 10:30:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e7738b50d82877cea4a9e481b37bdb65 SHA-1: e4cfae66f82d2d1f4c84919011f40f1ed64c8e83 SHA-256: bc4d285a4940ec18abfc481ba998d7128327dd8a29792ed58a4f5a1401ffbb57
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment that it is part of a malicious distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://22743333.com/userfiles/files/22866989865.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavevejizedapiran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/88713498689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afab3ab5f20---taped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c5a4414720---19860983858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e541f70e3d20c4102e9ee003adb3d26/rokorinovojaduvapofumajod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/17934705303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093489a48f91---zupinefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/kefijave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210525163434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuahuyhoang.com/media/ftp/file/25343227917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810d0b0713152d812d4ac99dc05c288f/34843964536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/98805705200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ttiql475pn509ld5plo4j4f1h/61892648436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/texugusajavunejugakanutur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943c0d613c0---89946943303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f52b547300---nabekepupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2lft4umh18rn66nd3gunqdj1l/26960534025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13d74d1ec6266bf93c4386d99c12dc63/47399307701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/109402ab7953780cb933c91cac682fb9/gulizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/nesezumesipidikuzove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d25de52c1bb22fd43e380d77a309b6a/kopupozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b9a7cc7e7---nukizibebusorututidotutub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609428819593a---bidowoxuwebupemisit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=beverly+hills+kylePDF 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_off0000eddf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F6 10048 bytes
SHA-256: d1a6bdbc90cc8824facdb71223be114ac840b311236dced9c51e5c833ba5cd54
font_02_sfnt_off00011c62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C62 17256 bytes
SHA-256: dbe435563df14c6864e50f209214ba9ab083ab771518dc52960470463547799b