Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd4c24a1bd5641f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 11:14:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dc9d04b369a6fbec7e554ff561d72cc8 SHA-1: a421afb0432e54e7fb10de4f4919d3d0d2c2c8f5 SHA-256: dd4c24a1bd5641f5a8b80f67cb75e99c4694815f6c40801a6a034ea1c9785044
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. This suggests the document is designed to act as a link farm, potentially redirecting users to malicious sites or phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links supports an attack pattern focused on user redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://shbaicun.com/userfiles/file/2021081710035073499.pdf
    • http://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xorelobukixorogin.pdf
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/32865217346.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0v811dt9atb11n49vgg16udcub/41679225798.pdf
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/79286875503.pdf
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31d94f4a530eb1bf97b6ed96966022e1/29949895604.pdf
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/573ce77e1be3e8574a2352761dc5d72a/95925444506.pdf
    • https://deitratech.com/userfiles/file/kajufu.pdf
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fac57b7af4f17e760975de899238670/46189072506.pdf
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/85708401775.pdf
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/fuzoza.pdf
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/sipevegorazoletizajiwowa.pdf
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/593263d423765967805754c1c840fddc/jakudefudovaxifedojikugo.pdf
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/kizirixedobiti.pdf
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f28a06b6c02eef36457ef8ad7ffd4dd/88122027237.pdf
    • http://zafirkort.com/uploads/files/86966817439.pdf
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da813478029ec3971eea857c6e2e8a25/nojefolinadimebetaxu.pdf
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/dilumovo.pdf
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82845975748.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ib2hnj9nhiq0ihtkc07d79rgh6/34742890794.pdf
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fdbb17733e5abaf99960bac9a042129/wevikaxubuxaw.pdf
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9g6rq4fqk6vev8u41j6s2kl07/63495491244.pdf
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/61527045766.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=libro+parasitologia+clinica+antonio+atias+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d964.bin
1525dd0c8df641dfec4d82e5525e214b1ffd6e1cc80dd96a0dc8a3926e871a3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD964 10760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1cf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000109e1.bin
ef1e78632cbb93f36c497669ec1de84c800cd5dc6b1d2227a469d66f2860da0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E1 19232 bytes