Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e393f50752fdf51b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:05:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ec9581426868fd5247a66a80c518968a SHA-1: a58c302b0a8ebf0e7b66be947ac27268fcf9e83a SHA-256: e393f50752fdf51b93e0b14c96a120773a1cbbc5bfeb7b5e23f08b65727ad2c2
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, directing users to download other PDFs. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, suggesting a high likelihood of a malicious payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/914b1c7b6a9c2d361b5f93f7477828c7/17522288051.pdf
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609352eba9157---97454417249.pdf
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/13227369313.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828bb279826---vupodoxofi.pdf
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f36cdd5d9c03581783d5d1023d211661/64116776311.pdf
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/590294884e2cea5b041b060a05500efe/kesalebakazij.pdf
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16095b1357b64d---tobuxakanaf.pdf
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibrutt9v0lc21qbemhb2i3sg90/35288693373.pdf
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722b1738061---82220484328.pdf
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6g5fcptnjjl8451u9oc1dbneu/65520560372.pdf
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bbfe9696e---88465802008.pdf
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4be842fba---xumamuder.pdf
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f09d9653c2b0e061c46f8843f308b47b/86237881501.pdf
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/67686711061.pdf
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/woxubeja.pdf
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/48988887690.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e0a26c147---tetas.pdf
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/51550478659.pdf
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/kakabubibur.pdf
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kooqgrpi1d4bap1q4hq92n48up/22035323901.pdf
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da54af1ff0---87035192986.pdf
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945150aa5ed---40356226082.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=word+connect+level+117
    • 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_off0000d87e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD87E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f095.bin
b5bdcb7b0f64bb3a1ccb3328bb33d6aa071001dbb9b6c78d45f1b6d959ba00e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF095 10104 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010751.bin
a55a20a4c3932cb1d12232681ae6be71348b395677e20def9d9c477ed5227fc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10751 19436 bytes