Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfeb360ca52117c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.9 KB Created: 2021-06-21 07:53:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 752a660354e80b68003be0b7ae4b51c6 SHA-1: 131900cec89012df138d3775b21321f024bf6040 SHA-256: bfeb360ca52117c4b55c65b4b3c820364cdb80e8920f52ff5d3ed6f8a99f62f7
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to popular software downloads. The presence of multiple links and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=winning+eleven+ppsspp+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eec71f1b726a20d11c6ac099d263e044/61442203321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb35a4d2f1---tuponosuwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/003749fce917d73d0107ff15f02c3d54/65037039493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb86c39caa3---3576118961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e66cf3f2f2---11209236523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6b7fe3223---37768889668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fda786024---95141810893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/pujiwena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba126e163ad---61391308862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nv6l2sjvt5bud4eq0g4bf0vhp/58469762733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab98fd2cf3b---43513703724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fb7411c98---20638591502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed1e2db8e4---tutumilufuzavaxonakolijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083603d2a89d---dorebuluranoxeluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec0acae1ba---mizafawigafutilujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7e2f8892d92f26a786d51d75bcfb7ef/18239553393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000153da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153DA 9212 bytes
SHA-256: d1e15ef648489fc83371e07f8a0e2cb2ba57ea77ea030568a68c38c1b2602456
font_01_sfnt_off00017209.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17209 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 37f8f1fb1842658e61115dea45d4afd5285bbb5eb2b21a4ab56b7a6252573555
font_02_sfnt_off0001835d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1835D 12536 bytes
SHA-256: ae75668867fd77362981e406bde06ddf24856bd1b6003fec6b06d1c829719d28