Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c64d3d99659ade48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:34:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a651e38dc58c1316b2ab267fe8168c2a SHA-1: 989ed86d93a76a4e399c2d349d023c549d6f461d SHA-256: c64d3d99659ade482cb0294432a535a875357ed8cf1d8a1ac807ce1eb56f13ee
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely used to distribute further malicious content or for SEO poisoning, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb053e644f---27439292198.pdf
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/zulefasimojiweti.pdf
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160993f73a9c8a---kodagiwaxevobakadaj.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080998117693---3393395029.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d93a68676e---2852145164.pdf
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dace8d3eede61707d0d2cacd99ea7bc7/favewedu.pdf
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/6070441708.pdf
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/73665904802.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pg76ifpn0k67gl7e7n1hcj08d/27532106380.pdf
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec218ddc4dabc6df97413f7b85e7aac/fabutununax.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca716eaa4b---zafebasafe.pdf
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/35820302948.pdf
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0a0031b73---29950248706.pdf
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609058583a349---lavotufomudur.pdf
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvo8gqol7oibtffhagolnhov4g/xububij.pdf
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/32890609292.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5a1c4b8c4---84624801416.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766f9c8124a---50903266473.pdf
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad08dcb38ee3df1580dde324ed58004a/10692936454.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56e4db6333---15275404507.pdf
    • https://adikkedua.com/contents//files/40829496636.pdf
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995102eb01f---vurexiwizevutujoguziso.pdf
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd3962a9f18b1b3ca4ea23dafbdb3b1/23119275337.pdf
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/wiledozafesawuzasokowanun.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=food+composition+table+philippines+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_off0000ebf1.bin
b96e6aa164dd4071fcc7efa27fc8538c1c9a067bab8eb3282cbe512280c8afbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF1 17060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011894.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11894 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130ab.bin
b0156d9896de10ba5bace19f2ba961c080cd7269bff94bfc7bc85ea884ff74ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130AB 10904 bytes