Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e48ab65d72cfc4f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 14:12:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 90c4d882fc20664c9312f6c539c70196 SHA-1: 7ed17f9c787349752b531a88827f96730ae3e36f SHA-256: e48ab65d72cfc4f5bfa3f17b74faa2b0e340b29e3bfbb348f61fa17d62e594d0
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supported by heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. These links likely serve as a lure to download further malicious content or redirect to phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdce3f6cdfc---33977693841.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kasystemofkarate.com/clients/861259/File/14548152172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24766616531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2j9c9t18r8m8jt4cg5sjg37e4/31239220819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/79137386949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/88347311223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/borogenagawopifunamusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27392388900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qs0h4bsknfocumt5s57lboi8a2/33539352853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/jovabupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/843d7adcb2c8e39e3f2f11d996dfabb6/20512703133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/83568420821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichgiahy.com/upload/file/96446414724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d4d37db6a---9894050965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/96568779227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/zexepilitumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/warov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae8bae7aab1483a96e4fabe2905ac6c7/wujegofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b029d0b7ff---vodakile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6be417d91c---33790312860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071741338a34---34888992740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210610004923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080291553f2c---36580582027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54d7ab2967d5b33db205c482c145fd5a/66934335621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=bloody+nose+every+morningPDF 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_off0000f5be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD5 10564 bytes
SHA-256: f8f6ccb9c435b2f8c47f103f798fc95db24805468459a4c8f2bb18bfc5c9f0b7
font_02_sfnt_off000125b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B1 17132 bytes
SHA-256: c9601d13e2a042c34a02649c8b7162cc87889ce3dac969eb774195b9e8dc58bf