Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f16eb464fdeab7c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 15:49:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9a74b1d9b056868cd119c03cb71d5b68 SHA-1: 5b3c1f9a46a4404bd692a13db79681014558233c SHA-256: f16eb464fdeab7c36a4b4f165ef1b0e4827ad9ec627c6e296169e4fef9abfe47
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or malicious redirection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

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 http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c1e8423a2---gazagizutumaluzimudewunuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/60173723910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jetcj6bvodkk3ifok7vie2tomn/biruruxetiwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1bf9244d3---26352671909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourhkg.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/50817598341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/43949160169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir8ah412st6lhl8mg8t4v61lfg/13310765937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-24/20210624094357863375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/57488485013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yalciniskele.com/imgup/file/sizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5e1fda7c87fa176be0f22eb4df48874/53763457270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbq9it7b5sn4q2pjk2sr8spup0/64856172914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab47ff2837---wolatupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/medubaduvomusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072221066cf9---sukinumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4o27qicek5djhbif79ehu8eeh/75564561582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/gupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2822a1b0ea---konenura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralgiving.com/media/userfiles/file/70487565226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///65591780826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c6ac9c799---sokeveden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17fa50e0653b9130be3b3e963b7da2d8/35563727689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48c66e1c78---76644233981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72299698374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=jacqueline+orchard+barristerPDF 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_off0000ec4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001045e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1045E 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 176540a31e2df3951892eacafdc96f0623474fc70a5b3b0d488b0bface7bf572
font_02_sfnt_off000130d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D3 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 322f9f926edb62794609c2c1cf63fceece4efc021dfed0b6f7f892a288b0a8a7