Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb757840ff5150d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-16 13:28:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 38cf7d9e2207090dd3e8322fde8f041c SHA-1: bcf7f69eb4a7014a6bf68e50395e56cc39688f26 SHA-256: eb757840ff5150d3aa6b84d8a02d17cb2dd7e4f7899b0ef5f80f4faac5ed2aa1
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host more PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage distribution or phishing campaign. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure aligns with techniques used to obscure malicious links and host further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812be9fb43aac5265cef0e7898939521/zisedorusivipexemije.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/bawabubejopifare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-sports.net/uploads/products/files/15700307112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d42557bb2---wagekelemojumenisiroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cqqu7hrvvsnhufmk8tg9fm74a5/68959021796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/534g6dj13i6jbv9r76l340km72/91450060865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/vabowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tovadasiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/18694365888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d44dc83c3---31120514960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7674e01a021d399e27bcca6018ac822/85764547950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/tademe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5decef64b---luzipixokuzofalatilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasciindia.com/firetech/ckupload/files/19224060834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/jaranajunerafanoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/3025580516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/xexomaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/867866fed54db6c8d069b22bdd81a500/melokixajikebulezido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15d685206d---88496551582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/82516603693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bdec01b24---60299111770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b737a52ce4---441169222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/varemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewavozipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xosofebafiwinafenufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccb4a49fd8---21143934310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/xabemadabamoteletozibove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=beacon+of+truth+meaningPDF 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_off0000f6ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F00 16968 bytes
SHA-256: a186603119da01abf3063a6645f8f67826cf81cd5414d96cbf405b142818f1f2
font_02_sfnt_off00013b6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B6B 10724 bytes
SHA-256: d1e81ee0cb2999f70abb34f1ecf2a769131afba4d06a0ea4abe1ee733efd95b1