Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c30a56d87f499183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-07-10 03:18:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b960775f3544f4e9210791cb7b7d6456 SHA-1: 0fe45d1e24ff3ee4f0bd0dde7d15d9a452323dd6 SHA-256: c30a56d87f499183aa32bac44d584976de0ba1f78fd35dd1260c1c6e24970b0b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, specifically pointing to files within formcraft plugin upload directories. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristic rules indicate it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting. This suggests the PDF is designed to lure users to download further malicious content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f519346756---10970935817.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/av7pcdqcf4ucqtrriagvjk0mfs/63141319240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774d0ed5e3b---85905817561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/33464089078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/wikasunidalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608405861942c---85499055088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/68316853579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc5cadfe2d---25956699421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71657275846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coopinproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47872755815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce5a9d23810---39070881382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a786b134dbe26b8dc93b6496be0b19b/24671311218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f546f3ed7a---kowugigupebiloguxoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajeer.co/userfiles/file/zusosakazoribigudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifetides.ca/cambridge/uploads/files/28283747624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcmheavyequipment.com/admin/images/file/53177889204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/908a3cfa4c9d4237dcbba74b6b601077/fugusonidizovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/borubevawire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa614427bd6---12759886144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b1b5595635a9c6e38c9c37038e543e/27529551216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7998c4459c8c47f2997101c035e9b002/19297731283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447b9552a6994378b1094ca195da6b80/kolumewusomaxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d831080ae---91980962357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/58374888478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/im2c7dcrs8qiq4tn4qdcotgdsf/jazazenal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=joan+magretta+what+management+is+pdfPDF 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_off0000c32f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC32F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB41 17176 bytes
SHA-256: e17734c24606816792990f4b3d3cf9d44c44d78874c83c8998e2c9a1c9ecc511
font_02_sfnt_off00010730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10730 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 610cfc884129105f26270f9b03fee789231c07d698b77e95da634976c3a62617