Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d547fcdb19fea976…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-12 12:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2bed061217850bf6aa9ee6858be788d1 SHA-1: e055794a5946a76ca5ac122488d24254cd64ba39 SHA-256: d547fcdb19fea9762b35036dd1c40edec8ace27fc3a0c9b80a853fed855a559d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests it's designed to lead users to external, potentially harmful, content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF's nature as a link farm is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=select+date+from+datetime+sql PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46916773197000db16f1f8a02bdf28d5/82360471097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608693b5bcc87---tonifigisivofavan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ddb3rvk5jj2mnbvca0nmeamc/fikimamemojajevigaxozafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e44fc611b6---87216082057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents//files/jerul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f38081fbcecbee2b189bdfa162e922fc/kanotetepejebepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/kemuzekotezufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/49436878358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f5b39fd31---10809742253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/795b0e98a97dced0154afea3cfc17166/nenobevitukaxubowugibiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608582fed2191---jonupepesijixafudeduvavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gco7ee837gjlpgl9ehrfl3jqj8/nanulakebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f10e9ac65b---5073067609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876fa204782---51838582994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a11605ea17---5326684834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jmavku4d5ncc9m9pa8jcesspm/90969120026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd1755a741f---48036594811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27e5b2b9d0---40620632275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/75751555085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10363 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 658a260bd1e68088578d8dc04ee78b257f83caf834a63eba02f0a68455ec6b09
font_01_sfnt_off0001149a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1149A 11156 bytes
SHA-256: a8805b3145c0137ab2df87ef46189d22a55cc057bb195559746e75b466469218
font_02_sfnt_off00013a98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A98 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f