Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd0a95b57218866b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-08-11 17:44:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1d6326d7d32b3d743792af0ded22cc29 SHA-1: f77adaa3935c3cb46ba4ad3ac9e129fc291b87a4 SHA-256: dd0a95b57218866b85207e4eea5865bfab347cb327019474c72a8d99a9d02fe6
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content or facilitate SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern of hosting malicious links on compromised sites is a common tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/599fc2037d975bed48f738dae7bf637b/sujopesobuwafaxoke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b804f7a202e---siroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb62a23ed0a---pujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608674089bbd9---gajaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4409f7d4f65cd83c1fc975cc9e4db31/13745533609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2glh3t7gpbmdufs1k4vhbs6pa7/kutonupoxupawupugibopezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/9877477363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/lozaxawadevitavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/biwabosagejobelosuwumaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/762edc460b31242aa3a6a19250c1a20a/matixisepadopifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e28b5c9e62ad4ae8655c338b17c0b59/96517713021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/71924217284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/mekelejoxelafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cc4c7e72347d731dc5d7d506a140f70/kesetofivesibedudulupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54158823f4800e135d473fecadb542ab/sofonerowibujaxazeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/64083961844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aagkbrca3apkgkee0a1bi.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6770357860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a222efbfc---39020623989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f037037ac---47749557596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/89487248328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoinhikhoavn.com/img/files/sifupixapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021080218123974199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8e8adb600---gesuneki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxmeat.com/upload/file/a1525ddf6dd3ce18817f98985e62e14b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=betty+azar+basic+english+grammar+workbook+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD167 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e97e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE97E 11612 bytes
SHA-256: 3fe8a82c412a9bc3a34bdc50729fcf482f6bd43e245cdb818f058cc032b6f47d
font_02_sfnt_off000104a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A1 16152 bytes
SHA-256: c8bd7f60590ffc648d367dafc877abb326b8c84d3ef5cd737a379e3066eab793