Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d55f73fc7a080973…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-07-09 05:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d8011eaea96da2b71b532a99b405344c SHA-1: 1a155601f1c7080bfcead3bdca3530859d5c0440 SHA-256: d55f73fc7a08097330846cc5f384a5dbc7b9861dcd9b658057ef5aa11b6f0099
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 numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest the document is designed to lead users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs indicate a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://3sdent.com/upload/files/jawefezanurenisazimesar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5a2a7d2e21dd0580faab85c12675bee/wulumogijomaxedumasuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d08c93aee---bulagusuletawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7db7aaf960---31247907066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/megenibimigogiredini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/63743522272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/kopezugedovomexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210629_201220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fd579a9fb64cec8b9235872d5e34939/femalakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608053763c93f---fimoduloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b1a9a21e511eea7d738312bf1444b3f/gufokerelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o63bbpakp6f185o2jpsajv2s72/worufopokukudeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbb838f450---18287163199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094614848580---fugafodixebikese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/42448241621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/31236164726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f328de45520decef8d08ca6bdbd894c/reroxoxini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021061305422980554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e20de3b3dbb---legazuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac9fd6751e---kunefalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95393353187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/vidonomimigotovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fasg4avd2p884gsc7ebco27iff/doresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+geography+class+6+chapter+1PDF 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_off0000e195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE195 17184 bytes
SHA-256: e48ff054c9a6dd480e8c9815a267b0b6f9958cc950ee4370861331d1fd8e073d
font_01_sfnt_off00010e9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9D 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 3069c9dcf456a230b2ddca7a14a9740e5fd6ed103cbab97654eb5a428e61cd5f
font_02_sfnt_off000127b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1