Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d75f448eb9377533…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-06-21 16:32:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e910ae66eeb49ded99853beaf80da7a5 SHA-1: 89802ae3797a905e5904e93779f2b31fcd6f4f29 SHA-256: d75f448eb9377533fb8c484fd1b19e5cc5ef442549e01fbe1cad19ffcbce8d62
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the presence of multiple external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common distribution method for malware or phishing campaigns.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=present+continuous+tense+is+used PDF link annotation
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/57978168175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccfb779351---vofelovili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vu9be4ca57gdpoguqrtqeibk0/wowabedogelapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d35157f5d1---64949438119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brickbodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/gatigitoriwelapowemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/virib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5978130b893f91d19415e5013d5d4f41/67752533821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6krtp9tc0dk7vv4tukhtfrjcf/35417430659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b10ad8565b3432ea4f206b44733c819e/95498604664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pn5iubas23c6ph6geil5audi21/62535799475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e0627204683525328c40883c7f971b7/53913139828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca3bfe6187---nisaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/xuvirojegofuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b7935f134---watuxafesebixovolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca1e86199e---6459022365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF72 4692 bytes
SHA-256: 1fc2714387fef9c60770382a4383a70f20deee7a71aeea50da87eec3b5f35fe6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF73 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 1984e71dee4cdc2e673b0ca3f69fb9c92fc454f9df03ed6a8c4dfcb8b3322f19