Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9bf8744531b55bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-08-28 05:53:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 557a25e0c0db67291ccfd04f8083b0a9 SHA-1: 7b785c5a5952c951d38f5edb001c1fd7afdad27d SHA-256: c9bf8744531b55bd6b3f61ef0676151ca0b390224d340e0739dd4198122ec6d6
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a likely attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a redirection or download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a6ee906c7---juvexol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/65233533557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7d0b57b0c4---juzigatago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1fc88e060---javagezisunotomudojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90aee1051a008eb95f8c6e0f370fa34b/85831499573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c983d1237---lelonesabozanorazotivusog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/13955062491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e50ff5547da71f4ef459974057c356a3/wasufixukuwapawovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb5159e4d1726aed9a29694d808d52bb/lafutekusijiwaporijesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcd8eb41680507e941a27478d3ad7917/wamazolovuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/10278393646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/98724501234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehsclassof88.com/clients/7/7f/7f6c4973f16106f9a1f2948091db50b4/File/kinakazunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gplacestracker.com/userfiles/file/zojafiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce41aa10a1---44597724707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karcannakliyat.com/userfiles/file/94469452690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/46429176451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49d9f16dbce05935e07011f8c55f1fc1/71964229903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/tonizilupafujitago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interativacorretora.com/fotosempresa/files/jibanekune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massintech.ru/img/outer/files/jisupugusibezakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863e01bec85---352461161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarybrescello.it/userfiles/files/riluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9eef0c93b---16426813423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ignore+meaning+in+marathiPDF 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_off0000bb4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB4C 16376 bytes
SHA-256: cc00846a4e9d3053bf5aa5ad1451dff9f5b4758db8ff0c1ea2feca100302fe7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE480 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC97 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 4f9354305e751c8bf943e93c88671aec595a1adcab9931a05fa4d86df2481a89