Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9910c0c1988e14e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:11:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a39f10ca561f1d85b7253e9bd3ed7ee7 SHA-1: 4b39b4b75c77d5def62b7cfd1da5f9d96ab44082 SHA-256: c9910c0c1988e14e6d80c0555df60dfaaec1ae6dba82ee80f3f16896066562d0
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a link farm on compromised infrastructure is a common lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9873

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://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kudbjpeponfrkbfa8i5g0pi60o/femigasibipo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e994127d857f691d9865cb75aef08c7/24941485158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c3f698a99---82104898642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac902711d63---27024401804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/85006137464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51d401f313ca0f6cd3691660ddc8f3dc/11677574816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents//files/73292547484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck9f9fvid2eo12e9cssfjh97c5/43863780613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c4b117590db9d3aa33b70aa0c11e1f5/posaduzovegaveleses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e339f63137---zixapukewizozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/36318424735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hp28311itj1ncj7iovjevs5mkm/64501936652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a19caa69e---31337009112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/pepesebamimurutefunobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607207ed8dc15---14981812208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c622382cac---meximo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markiza-trade.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86102764915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6254afe08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/nuvepupinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d95d71f90---rogevubezafikegoxowotegeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7e0ed6819---32821343455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084079d67f93---febapibuzeludebixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/23597891978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7871d604c60c9393a0bd352d12db83a7/17877246844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c2360d3b1---fororumilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f6dbd731a---57906478844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=spotted+dogfish+sharkPDF 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_off00015d22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D22 19596 bytes
SHA-256: 0bbca381385a05126a6fccfd72cc869050969eeddbb6f5db6a633e0b2da17ab5
font_01_sfnt_off0001900a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1900A 10796 bytes
SHA-256: eccd2143452982f9b130256b7781ec09c1641d64c633120894627ebe8ee79372
font_02_sfnt_off0001a8da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A8DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1