Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8eec798d7cc629d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-16 14:44:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 58fa518a806212b85234af1faacc7794 SHA-1: 607d9901ad84fbc54d244ba9772ead1fbbfa9ca9 SHA-256: e8eec798d7cc629d38afb1a8f43379d86551ad7362e035be53b448649ba822ce
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting PDF files. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting and a large number of links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2d6e9ce869---9086464044.pdf
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/dowefadomu.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/nesebofumufew.pdf
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe655ed188be620f17be04c80d5d08ca/logujut.pdf
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/12337780379.pdf
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a0227b7e7---55772392247.pdf
    • http://slanfusa.org/clients/47225/File/18903633669.pdf
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/csc0pjpm865it2jhnk9p10nqfm/tabipogesofe.pdf
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c056ff40c64---kemaxadij.pdf
    • http://generale-bureautique.fr/gdb/files/file/dadutupukoluv.pdf
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/jozabedatotatog.pdf
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/kajipolepil.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8534bf8f38b8f3b3851d756be618199f/motijafamumelo.pdf
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/marawebi.pdf
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/potovitezakotuzuxolizafu.pdf
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12hp8uqlh23ubpnedl77mgb57j/67591385523.pdf
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/74174914686.pdf
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c962ae2a34---mofegotevazudux.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca411f97e31---7809425137.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e59129sam1411upllrj1lmct2l/dudulozumerawesitez.pdf
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b18ab239179---39400584063.pdf
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/wewagodaxodilafezowug.pdf
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22146314848.pdf
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/17157262776.pdf
    • http://myphammonly.com/luutru/files/nuvotarozim.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=3+month+probation+review
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a412713d1e816c6321e8020e43e3da3/zunuj.pdf
    • 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_off0000f23b.bin
0ebcb3e647c73080ede19ff3b53497b8edd7f5e8960d7907ee8a2eae28d68411
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23B 16548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d43.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D43 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001355a.bin
8ac9ef990a5179d3b0c28ab4eda83f9ad08f7fdf146a7c3f520fc6369f63b89c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1355A 10672 bytes