Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f10824a0ee1e86c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-31 05:04:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 46aefbdd174bdfe9caf28aa35f31892f SHA-1: 1b89ffc944f632f69f394e151c95d03c44f5da97 SHA-256: f10824a0ee1e86c99fe6ac0990771a246c1ce2bf48309407be042751526d1ad3
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically targeting file upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious PDF files. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links indicates a pattern of hosting malicious content on vulnerable websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tc0h82gc84fbudu04uoivl9g6t/sojilenupuwox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/81644109833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jss-moms.si/upload/File/difalikunitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elektrona.cz/files/file/18946290048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/felazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7518584acb48f131c78d9e6cc435d136/39438335632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43728943774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b037d284ec---64625895952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/53669769989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugskin.org/userfiles/file/puladakolome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fuvilelilewunadewulaxovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703c28724a5---75196102707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f929d076d---xepelulevesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-23/20210623165252186307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073aa1a1f0ef---98678453592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb9584cb45---jamili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skulpt.in/admin/uploads/file/mokidofovivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m6hvaf2ppbmoaqqh0nppm039s/47063984771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/sirozoremoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/47817437076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5bb183003---90657143138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/39069205240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7fefb8ce8---lunumofaripofuresixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d6743e1b6---36343244112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=life+processes+class+10+state+boardPDF 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_off0000cd78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD78 10780 bytes
SHA-256: c8a1f028ee3796fb47218b9a14c173e7e9d91e01ea5c18a6003e8af3e5b8930a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e63b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4D 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 8abb0eab83cead5c893506ba4baeebc3072d0fe1a8fb1230f603332f317bf75c