Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2d4807046a7d7b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-06-01 08:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 293a038b516ee1d6e514d447756ae793 SHA-1: 98c3335c7405dc91f4a4ddac7397d6aae3b5706c SHA-256: c2d4807046a7d7b356e4da2bea1ca218fdd1372e7593190bd5e264e3e27e37a0
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The ML classifier and heuristics indicate this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a link farm. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content through a chain of compromised resources.

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://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094091757284---57601625379.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25e94f12babedbd45a6af1ad56937460/20125127506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f47b3fd45e888d648d6bfaa2ca7e483/saditulevoxupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3367cfbad02c0675976c40aabf5e125/lowodolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/80091011419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d556280949a0d8ac7128f124bd87ae1b/56391962804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5d7bb64a4---30104588034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd80b283faf7b7ae74889ddafa9632bb/27217838398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1qlvgs8jt6r3s0bs9tn0bs8r4/45182710939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbe9393be0---wodudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/739312707ce7167723b6737e0cf47068/28184707716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d37b15494a---73499480748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e6c24cef2---sarupefejadebodadizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609369ea8be49---13669012475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/32994568259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+pass+driving+theory+test+uk+2020PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d991.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD991 5740 bytes
SHA-256: 5dfe0a3440027dc2bedcbf7bfc1edebf1c5c57b683840c4301a3ee2d15877ab5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED33 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 37e460bae3df5847d72d1f0c41c32181b5faa79e5fd8da2713b5cd6d357a577b