Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc327d18c99a36c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-08-30 04:45:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 51fb77afe89ba998d5ef646474290290 SHA-1: b1f8c3ccc27431d9ba20d326ece8d169b6fdfa28 SHA-256: cc327d18c99a36c8124cd550711b6e384a4bd84f3817c03ee8d32be3dada8db5
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics supports the conclusion that this document is intended to lead users to potentially harmful external sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127fb1613745---fixuruwudikapuduwikiki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4efa151978e95dd7b3a71be97c9a9a33/widamejezozus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/29980888494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvolodin.ru/upload/file/madugokerasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/dasamebagumakedenopeludeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867bf622626---33068502306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elshandmadedesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45742918906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oletrans.sk/editor_uploads/files/wixodamutawekizutuxiwoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66c0cb08f3b456f413f5f53804e15d74/zezijilolilixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/55756207291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/18399208876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eszixv.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91022060190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2fb05b2b83---87470444595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c02631d2ebe24445fd2e93bb64bba47a/58517061393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112750ed79db---dokenutetelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/febarivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvomivopanunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/woxotaselafejemiwavuviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5dfd412fb3d838a59339e253d96d4c3/jevipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e79f642e8---25482863222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f70082fbe---41642910285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/lemumixifenibumesojufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7814aba643d0920a0c14e1437dcceb85/kokaguwawimemuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=rick+and+morty+a+wayPDF 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_off0000d1a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A6 10520 bytes
SHA-256: d594a99ce56eddc9147f17f08c0bde16095d0afd2768365396187493e16e2e4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A6 17336 bytes
SHA-256: f92ca1eef08287c187713c8ab669ea1f3492407f131df203c98a2be7ffc68796
font_02_sfnt_off000116a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1