Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4def5ea40870752…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:04:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 41b75961f963e3863ea6c8f84fe120f9 SHA-1: 6c70a2b11608aa5d9e224647f8c43a5482e74555 SHA-256: d4def5ea40870752f060e8ff530d312133cf561c10990f330ee171d708fc3f5b
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links appear to form a link farm, likely designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the assessment of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a8df24762---99209523962.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fvcugj1vu32ufi7q6acueqgb7/dunowupakupuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7b9266f7b8---tamerap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-property.pl/userfiles/file/juxaxuvovejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612bab1827288---zofanaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf5bb543fc968d297b75aeb0a96e851b/6292017012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/tixon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/raxisawibowoxixudefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b505a1fd9b0546a76d3ca1d08b79674/pujajazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3439136b17---fukesepitatijuzixazinadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80525887102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/17761499482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w3-japan.com/js/upload/files/zemetawogili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092cbea194e9---zafutuzabutobebeberujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/24219327778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uat-tunisia.com/userfiles/file/9326321665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d21575aab6e8049dafd3ce96735a7e2b/59924266992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/mugirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/58552789210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/78022795472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202108212109511532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/ledudowekasitop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4bcva5fdcb8dr3glm4r0knml1/donija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/xakuvowubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/beput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e472d10ff7efac2f141d033061d59b1/43368584535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73747e01577c34003195491aa331b0bd/banolobalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5496ef43fcb0be1bdcf8198e5ff39a53/90604427548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=word+2007+to+pdf+converter+downloadPDF 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_off0000d8d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F0 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 3828f68c578e5b3039f2d54ab53e0c6dcb8b063f2cca566ab97e46ca3c586110
font_02_sfnt_off00010a14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A14 17284 bytes
SHA-256: d604221af18246cc20b8a8db796710f6071daa91780c7364f9e3cbcdb8e3e0d2