Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0a1b88b823091cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:17:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ded65b5bc93379bb619ca2563f91aebd SHA-1: ca24b060835b45391a484c0b380e57a2d76aded2 SHA-256: c0a1b88b823091cdacabeeca9786f0d0f0e488fdcd925c402c395802418dfdd5
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host additional PDF files. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests a tactic to distribute further malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75cf6dd16f---bagefepil.pdf
    • https://vatlieutaphu.com/upload/files/44722358694.pdf
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vdvc4s2nf06d4g5junqj0cu4t1/jibezonirikon.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1ec2caa43---vedekifogijepesofuxuj.pdf
    • https://seripin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zewatavuwikibenuduze.pdf
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4b1e3a162---norasurerojilotafimi.pdf
    • http://melvin.cz/data/54793136910.pdf
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/rekokafisazidonomukir.pdf
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd56646d6767192cc978d64e8a4e54a2/dofudokukagoxidet.pdf
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/50194839379.pdf
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842f8e0fee5---posirowotaxakofexet.pdf
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/1913533881.pdf
    • http://longthinhphat.net/uploads/files/waliwomerepolezatolezoso.pdf
    • http://kdbelektrotechniek.nl/uploads/file/nalifunisugetagolol.pdf
    • http://willettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/79080958085.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1acd8e0e7---lekafa.pdf
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ca448187c57d3f63faa17285777033b/pujofotulubogajotilemipar.pdf
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/97647569077.pdf
    • http://allg-gyn.ch/userfiles/file/teruvizepimuge.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/99025466205.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf10efcd28d22d6197a419d2d1a92c68/68741396326.pdf
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1117e56396---lixumoruduvaxuguzerexi.pdf
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1a1aca532f4904da61ee0e61a044a4f/58590514467.pdf
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/17514477847.pdf
    • https://saksisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/porukidopikemumomifusuv.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=l%27amortissement+comptable+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000100d2.bin
b2decfd18d128a36cd945531b46246b14a47eb7de129ba5a5ea0758274ca22c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D2 21840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013833.bin
614cb5e76ff0b33160fe1550a60d012c98e8b59175f40892d96f5afadcb9a1df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13833 10912 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015139.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15139 16792 bytes