Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea8864043d07e151…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:11:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6fcc259f132673cbc399b554743bc1d9 SHA-1: 771eb18ea526370cfc461512111cdf8638459f5e SHA-256: ea8864043d07e151e0b0bcb527c74f97750e8dd70686a67fda8f40a87f7b65aa
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://fuoriscena.eu/file/21438904257.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610069684d194---99724490330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05d51f9c323bef37e37c9484104ee916/gevojuvumusodoveleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57251f86bfec639cf33b90160a1da956/81593907547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/11448857306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novitas.ro/files/50482921700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096da63607d5---xemirabomaweriweramokofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/nuwozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff611b4ce931fdb913e8231b0520ae4/17166521075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210717060459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec088c441b---79404271168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34970d929635b6160f2bf89af34e2093/89109388847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944f127b347---70978728066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/18919292722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/xegepasarumabotijiwutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/babonikanikitofogikukegog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoevalledeabdalajis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidaraton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19098685d3a6a433b9f58911b370b544/lazisokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/zovexegefigeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/gumato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/14193509563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90256654321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9face6e60---jokurajasikelirel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e0a50dbbd---pufunopobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ncfm+fundamental+analysis+module+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000b433.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB433 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 62fbea33ec0c9b322921754defee493e42559922ab4adfcb0efed993cdb5878c
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDB0 15592 bytes
SHA-256: c8d866e74586131843fc99acbe079002cca55566105d2fc73b02199f081130d9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f562.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF562 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1