Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcbe6a2d16f4ab46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:20:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f521c94bb813dcc249bcc1b324492166 SHA-1: 865c0e95202f18306f2e688d369bcc8e437f053d SHA-256: dcbe6a2d16f4ab4654fec5bbbe6c16a6f41514496507d4682b423dd09fb2c42e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and heuristics indicate this PDF is malicious, specifically flagging it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users. The primary purpose appears to be to leverage compromised websites for hosting or distributing content, likely for SEO spam or to serve further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3d8681017---wiloguvix.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/plmgnphj50l9o64h3ldou6b3mc/10925126575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dc200a3ed---23601891584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/zexajojifilivizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundainhapkhau.net/upload/files/96098051294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yves-segers.be/userfiles/files/28559311430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njf724.com/basefile/janatalnajafcom/files/kejimapabirafexajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/72990907296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarenpinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/litudefuxekuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vobogufedek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25688567ce8da6547efb931c8cd529c5/44850261673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/71891252303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071db26019aa---sivoxobikiralowejuxarudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c3454f497---69593607521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/gitowitudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608426fcdab54---zejedegodegivamulinaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowndes85.com/clients/d/d3/d39312ffd46aa2fbcc4e4de04d96a17f/File/67008798421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/2597401677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/zawapesepukorebebebore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/subam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/gixusoxelopakogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/81791401367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tannoy+reveal+502+service+manualPDF 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_off0000d3cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3CC 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 25a8a7748e6bedb76d278b260f0c0261134713bc42bc9dffbcc49c74afe730b2
font_01_sfnt_off000102e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011afd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AFD 10912 bytes
SHA-256: f4cf42fb0959f6d3f1fdaa419709d63e263015f5796a6a3871814be43156bd24