Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2510d431d372547…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 01:52:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2075bb875c6bdbf319dd290e2a68f60c SHA-1: f020968a3b3ed04ea103e7a822aeb696e60b6773 SHA-256: d2510d431d3725479e40668cb26d43075a322836618ac6d838841cbcd090685a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests a distribution mechanism for further malicious content or phishing attempts. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern is consistent with a spearphishing attachment used to redirect victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+point+of+a+slug PDF link annotation
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a9e78b75c49ea40b8f7f97a1fd4b12c/wizaniwigerobutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apogeeconsultancy.com/upload/files/zivawokenemonegofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/fitotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/goieclobi0696jk0et8nffhiju/36943938724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eddchbfk6i8pban4kfq0ua8u2/nedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b74434829---44539241360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starbox.fr/img/files/98181701751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/xigexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79c488dbdd---xelagirase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f638bd6946---vibosajozafexanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090dd0ec4975---37791452289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/xawinazisodetopiladuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718562ed294---nikekadolosatimuxigivizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/28802124647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5232a90c3f---rotuziwetisotenabepukevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hdmirtghl1ao4vqg9diiokah1/21678628302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/68232551083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82704044285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/97933808346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/000e1785c6b411d67ede25f45bfa77f8/puzidixafifojatipedekako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/nubomebipazitabikase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh5ev9hru8a0a3jqu8f04glnej/9239901481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hocnjfbimuh0c2ularbcf69s27/sikuroxasozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e40cf565be---69694945648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3a051snma61svochri2bncq94/lapevinenaf.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_off0000f3e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E6 17388 bytes
SHA-256: edacb30b6fd36a3af5cb0d0dc364da441af4b94dcaa4ca3057378817b35a250f
font_01_sfnt_off00012145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12145 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001395c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1395C 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 23f1ebf906ca1bff8878fcd01e13eb1901420570e34c12e082057e8c202734c9