Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e86b68112be499f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-07-28 06:15:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 654e48b9d0f64b6f81038bb5c254d971 SHA-1: 62eedd10d81b007b5e59f283aad2285854d0e3c5 SHA-256: e86b68112be499f7931de3a7211a893c606288e8978f68306bc99b52b01c1092
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload storage further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30bdf38dd3---magetavikugepuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46da3d525857eb38a22f5f10bb3ccb17/11256942115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgosvo.ru/files/files/wugitovizitazuretof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb5530e41a8---336171902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86l8do63v0hruo57m4obp09shf/foletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790649a0135---jezapanumebuxepeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8bce64485---25426032345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021062115042273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/xosuxaralupajevabiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10playsolutions.com/clients/softklk/documents/_articles_/file/21554153659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/niotl48t7i42gqeq93luohe4no/feremasaful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be295e3f49167d6cbe27cc254c1dae01/fovezorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d761532e8e89273794672bfc7901b8a2/womobeworesazig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/gugewotigijasibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f28305c7597---xukebobizixitexowagesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/17085924904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/razapudipitavun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/73493736835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86f82304fde665ed159943f6d991961/3420555464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c664cb8bee---90606814421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op5m3vkkt1dmgl6agg637t9p82/83936499003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gudidivati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080054a99904---55102858671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a352ed84d9c---67258464117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f3e997c17---5519414888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=briggs+and+stratton+engine+repair+manual+freePDF 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_off0000d10e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD10E 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 59a8a7e183659dee1549512762d886caf06bbd4f80215b77c85eaf92e6d88ef0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5D 16500 bytes
SHA-256: 786340104288f5a7a685f75fcb0a1cd197c0e7c580d508cfeab4a510a32ee284
font_02_sfnt_off00011511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11511 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1