Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d734aef28dd18755…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 265c1ebb1530185d0c031263221b5216 SHA-1: e351e61d2759435cc7fdf7a9bd7b6d0c1a54ff67 SHA-256: d734aef28dd18755a33d927ec6cc2cf575d6711e7d4ee0cb45afa25283f414d5
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 PDF files hosted on compromised websites, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3fa9004ad---viwogef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/92851051102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/74636548567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/fafinigufogegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16918760c6---18534664532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/049e3c3f36b73116d4cd233c02ab3dcc/43450428157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607046b640a11---56834701119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8feefb86ce---kiwiwatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/87240211186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a057c4b5c---nuturuzurotejizivezemikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5569688c1a---tidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f548da4727---xomukoduxani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9be34618deb089c6844307a9f9a3da2a/64708865110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210619023004723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cea821fafb---60703615875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/13926954616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741d41f3dda---vozeguxuroje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/14984074010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vdqfqlmhva8b4puph5fvb9jlor/92561204431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a790c0c8f4b354e1bcec6e26fec7e2/xajileselubedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94a8a573573dcd5fcdcf33fbdaa1e14/vudinorak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886f7263731---muzalixanijobugonudajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade2fbcf5c6---tenevovupelaxikofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/47573094614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=habits+become+character+quotePDF 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_off0000fb73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB73 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 4957524defa8da00cb73f4050fb2d5206cbc4022802da347247201adf6456a7b
font_01_sfnt_off00011415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11415 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 016846c4e42a89f371135b4485ecb7f36b96ea45372e7496ed155142e8f4e266
font_02_sfnt_off000140ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1