Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d67c0abfbf0cfc17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-08-17 06:29:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 987fe5868439a6df24b6900342fa938e SHA-1: 700b5afc627f8aefcda44c1fd413ad023223dfc4 SHA-256: d67c0abfbf0cfc177018621225376d2a0d258e75e60373248bfef37e1879425e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is part of a link farm designed to redirect users. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern appears to be the distribution of malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ienter.bg/files/76672651430.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcd87e1c9b---nubezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/20728123096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuwilowakumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a71e7b39c4---kalodisipofalirasanadugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/40797399342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50757be8446d09163f9619c9586c54d2/80084197136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cafc4e9edd---1323161499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/81101894327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/bikisajiparev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f56eb636237ee47d14cb466e26bd35e4/22459586288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160deee7fac998---sizixunatiwipekajodasibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9415937a6---51604289434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/91174476952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/4899121194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/dubafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asp8vft9fuooee7cm9o92qfte5/patuvijifito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redhillplantation.com/clients/1/1a/1a02e1fabf1298af97853074613e4b20/File/karikijemapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domosplast.hu/files/file/32988384388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/zasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/45344034501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/93920430766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71780329505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/lujiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/linokeberamisujopexidutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=rollercoaster+tycoon+4+mobile+not+loading+2020PDF 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_off0000fb12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB12 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 09b4a8cc68916c41007323eff185cc441df26151b7fa87bc7ef3c2d084659717
font_01_sfnt_off00012aab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AAB 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 700cb10cf0e060abdc38f4e4d72ec6682e9d07cb6d1729c1b648d488c67e6380
font_02_sfnt_off00014535.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14535 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1