Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcf3aa76a468f653…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 20:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0cd16adfb5cfaa5c2a435877710d4713 SHA-1: 1708af603389ab0739228c40b9adb2b966a6a7f9 SHA-256: bcf3aa76a468f6532f07fa6677e139baf4d2d4b779bee9a42ff582150a904db8
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. The presence of multiple distinct hosts hosting PDF files indicates a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769e7234950---fikimezijasipok.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dba07ed0407c55ac17c61755f252b67/buxizimejawimemero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/3275431804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79e78aa2421a05738fdc9daa27c1a72e/fujutofibagewepural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/engbrqsqb0udh8vrbq4moedjrl/katasade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/57570194620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilephleb.com/clients/2/2d/2d2188d13063160162e6e2bbcdac547d/File/30306722708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhdrum.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210720230522_OTUwMjUzNDA5OTI=.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3d1baeff06a755b0058fed886b2c11c/93789243024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc25a9e9ac589ae05752ff5cf5f0c171/97381590715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a4eed974c---15882945042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dfe9bf93c4055819ec771f7126dda06/90537344599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd586f8b043---wijebewozemozewili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyhondaotomientay.com/upload/files/tifudaligoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210715145152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210627110041752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/86628625260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/jezipegonasomigebosagise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/dubonawijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/digefogamusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qmkjlg1a658ii4q5cl2kcmj7p/xodesekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a09bf11ec7---64836644367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/tatolilizababafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/74289157660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95d558485f179d4d066685dbc106d01/98359981355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=moral+relativism+is+the+belief+thatPDF 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_off000122d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D8 17644 bytes
SHA-256: 9b610f667761ff752803dd325be0e29e2580758402cdccd3f469e175f649fe82
font_01_sfnt_off00015115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15115 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 681c43dc8fa4a5c15cea1ffdae93cd92813f5bd0124283726de8ebe1337d78ed
font_02_sfnt_off00016940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16940 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1