Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cebd495657a8672b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.0 KB Created: 2021-07-20 04:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4cd5835651af11d9b0b197b6e8d330fe SHA-1: c1571bf401b17dfb9d4a9dd3df9e37868bcb016e SHA-256: cebd495657a8672b2f3c64f7e34448679ef6de40dfe8f484dbef85f2d66d47d1
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous links on potentially compromised infrastructure supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, limiting the ability to determine the exact payload or execution method.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/89909163561.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc20d149ace---34157365771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/11112489077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/kuvolirutiberoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/74011550060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a905a52e542---82787996751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a96b9608a1---52377425775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/18192652536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3bddeb20e---91220034649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/rijavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609837d1bd77c---nawudapofavexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gialtour.it/themes/userfiles//files/rawizunisituxewasari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/burolowusaronu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeda25ce1af7814f844e1a678a05d7a6/funilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baafe9e0b2a---gejenorulefupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8a4bce42c---41986854343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ave-france.com/pics/files/67681820008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/gisaxukukakafulexefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca6a4f03c4e4a1a0e2994bd1711bd3e1/17305845576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f8fcb1a7a---17647129241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8810950e5afa598ea3db178cfe465c33/21898041289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/13258918206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/fubarusabilitukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=competing+on+analytics+the+new+science+of+winning+pdf+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe1fa100491bf68797739e2bb3f41d5/49332898647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00014cfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16511 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 38cf75e1ecf4d64c081662f8a0820b0a76dfc814a336d3326ba892587eb2f691
font_02_sfnt_off00017ef5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17EF5 17640 bytes
SHA-256: b1fbe5fbd5dd48728f2bd7e900b393e024225ec5856939f2bdc8ab4cd59da269