Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c382a7b0bf2d518c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-09 18:24:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 58209213649d4c2a47a1388b79e27a9b SHA-1: 3aa3cec9faca9c0c16e896952a5e6395658435d0 SHA-256: c382a7b0bf2d518cb034ab6cf4fa704a023f1cfd9d383e3d2682081d616257df
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF sample was identified as malicious by an ML classifier and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to malicious destinations. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns indicate a likely intent to lure users to external sites for further exploitation or content delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://cochu.net/resimler/files/46510462878.pdf
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/kunodofowomirogisazufi.pdf
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4e3f298811---bojakojonujejalozifabideg.pdf
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cekfj6et4dd0qq9g6tvrg83gg/xufabuxiv.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjd17esuu87qjtij475ff6oam0/mukakesi.pdf
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep6uq2h8pjr1f6uomdnes269gu/69673402558.pdf
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/mawomizi.pdf
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b53ef49d24cfd16ea0e9f4d95dad2d0c/93901820824.pdf
    • http://s-moonlight.com/CKEdit/upload/files/munavazekukuwe.pdf
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa360bbc233051534c4095136ba020ff/sefamufusudenigaloril.pdf
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/peratixadifatu.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec506320b1---45409976860.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4789c00c9---sonuwiwozuboz.pdf
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a3d66dcff---88317154517.pdf
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94f43089f2f73f8bab523efca68d78ba/81370208418.pdf
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ucms7vl1r54gu01f31kgg70l1/50699658715.pdf
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c89d3b7439---36064573973.pdf
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29a3oce1e1rav4gkqrhlu03ik0/88513700217.pdf
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/94078473131.pdf
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/34696674458.pdf
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e826c03051---famovuremarubukoru.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608883084151e---20594191177.pdf
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/82687708999.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=gradient+gold+color+code
    • 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_off0000e7ba.bin
2928a1b9730b18584bfe9b406372054184dd76444cb45a1e9c4905c7bd7d5435
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7BA 10416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff3b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001174d.bin
788060044b1f4582be71292f3fb223cd1021330787684434356e46a95f04acb2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1174D 17292 bytes