Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e754a2a7fd202d7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:41:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9a3c82b81d12ce0b8d0970be92b12c9d SHA-1: 747d1aff05a8e4c494aab78f1832bfb54cdcfec3 SHA-256: e754a2a7fd202d7f97b53706db17b82deb6a5fab22428c808f707caee1f4d30d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads, supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/16978928494.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c585097ce---43096334037.pdf
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/06/17/40998572630.pdf
    • http://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210603_E879A85E4936FAE8.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ec8f461383821de445dc1e1b9e3284a/15924192167.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca289b79b6---85635969673.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f9819d81e5068812058a7a02be7c9ef/jutewazowisapagex.pdf
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/80180198030.pdf
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4310097caf---vefajejot.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c034839c937---44430270400.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608681e30ae76---musominafamebizimipo.pdf
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f346dae809---25872754377.pdf
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4m76guhr0cn9vvvr0n0hvaqccu/58248435317.pdf
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/wokagorodokekibopeje.pdf
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/67988591136.pdf
    • http://hoacanh.net/luutru/files/mupefawomefevib.pdf
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c55ac4854---11380293892.pdf
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc6667dabbf23101618fcc8eb130ef6f/menem.pdf
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/42506236018.pdf
    • http://cityhighclassof77.com/clients/9/9e/9ea685038b5a197d2022a69b8c6b162a/File/zemerufutexexibopi.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/56923366867.pdf
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083463c74983---30700200627.pdf
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/sazajebelaposuvi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=glyphosate+poisoning+treatment+dogs
    • 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_off0000b7ff.bin
cfa6dede724d05d46775e0d4e676227725b03a7f7119b20ec235d1f9d3ae6b96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7FF 16992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3f3.bin
4067854d18a9fca7adbcaf253068ae5ee76eff85edea1f5827f04abedcd7f27e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F3 10992 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd24.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD24 16792 bytes