Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5928610846e1a3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 22:09:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 43f6f16693566b46357bc87922a6b204 SHA-1: 893c98ed24dc554463a05d36b1ce3d4b1b3fab3f SHA-256: e5928610846e1a3b106672797a452fd67baa06d77b669c0bcd6aea382f700109
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristics indicate it's designed to host a link farm on disposable hosting. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for downloading further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9711

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+editor+professional+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a407e068137d33ec744452f4ea624df4/62356544577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb73ce60bb---mobimepuxiwemoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffaf276461---pefivokajeloxipukarirugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b50699fedd548b852c4b3523aaa8c86/8024688585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/wotapowuxijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efdf4969f0---53729255820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/nusodalawabolozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bee3fbe1c8---pofibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplolux72.ru/upload/file/45348853673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmesn9qouse1o5gf08pebj8jt5/66731651935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60fcf7e7e3---gugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlkqond2at8iu5uoea1nl6vrr8/viposadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/kinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41956974397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19c0d05947e50930dea48ed3ef9ed9a4/85231066221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae08c7e7000---55087356613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30e443a6fb---24064693247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bffc3e196a---vokaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5282905146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d94598204---sepururutepumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/21413473416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/birizipegosinone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a53ccb321084cba3af18a8611936b306/wizumilijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u27j770th6egdsm6mmquj93ho1/84169387908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F5F 30032 bytes
SHA-256: f9683c359b2ad5df701cd7b472f114e17e1db3b4ee483165c218eb772c8fee80
font_02_sfnt_off00014ab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AB2 3224 bytes
SHA-256: ca4d72eb1d57bd0492afafd86e3bc3bdf205b069ba45c6d7d4633b42817a6486
font_03_sfnt_off00015776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15776 16488 bytes
SHA-256: c26743b87dfacdf0858f4b0a7ceb4ab939aa0c8d2a68f1ccae901a3bec0cb177
font_04_sfnt_off00016e85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E85 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 1a9404426d5e01e59f45e69a9c9748e886aedee1b13946c154f31d74ac8c7297