Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d544e28f404ac480…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 10:20:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 55bc6b43901f90319e1b6e8e6921b15d SHA-1: 2a7b21d9204e1fca0642754a7acc623aee64e4f5 SHA-256: d544e28f404ac480124a3f1412da5c6d4e37e52153150595ed9082ffb58edf1d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites. These sites appear to host further PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage distribution or phishing campaign. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting indicates an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or spread malicious content across multiple domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05bfb373e6d2fd9afec9678b105034b7/24764665833.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//97471879410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/wavidimobalixaluxisuvoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848feac0d59---fejuxisufufoziduwidapox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/xunikesawisilowimisuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d1793ef32---rugogalajunafatigusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c96fb208ef802c24970cadd297a80fc0/51253906609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krk8fr5c1khhqb2b5vv9aeijld/82630364815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/63709538567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/wafujopunudulumufuwegiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhlr8tdbt4gpqjogu15cd0aev5/tadirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098877b97ae0---tuleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086de034bc45---bafefedodewejonisigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2192066d0f7f0f48653bf75d97b7a439/46684673181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/budumuwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815886abc98---xubaparuxafukedumavutore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62463024170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/318d1f7c4f3a0645dc1555306ae28501/40875390462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/86208849876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/gaxoberubekaraziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608985aa139c1---lofasofixarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveforlungs.com/clients/a/a9/a9a80f3a93b7553e0860ec1960497db0/File/botusutopugisefopewaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/rofekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081744d66f9e---32806365864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6d123a54e---zasigarekoroleputeteseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/86434875083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=blackout+after+exercisePDF 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_off0000f62e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62E 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 0cfc815a49f64840279a1c3c06d1fd35b682ab41ac9c2d334dc11a0c73209b5c
font_01_sfnt_off00010e88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E88 16612 bytes
SHA-256: ee885db75e3a4378314d9d2ec22c2a3293d23e5856039baf1eaf388563f141a0
font_02_sfnt_off0001397e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1397E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1