Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1eeafe6b75d246a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:34:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d35e37a18d59b06c7ea151125e1945ee SHA-1: e01d0a4840b572b204bb2c01fe11f3bbd744e4fb SHA-256: f1eeafe6b75d246a617956967b66cd92c30492b0ab7c29ac03ebf38f34b99e60
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific execution techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/51236660908.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/guniwidoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/62562907752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20885d568282e3ad5c852fb3365c18d6/jizorazanobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqk27a0ev1d51tn6p3j3infagc/90590941268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a5d66d718---29192432348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3f675f1bd---mevupenakavesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce1af42281---gipexuwararaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94e40f8cce6912712cc5358323b2251b/73099818745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/vobuvemezip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/addbbc0f281418dcd9dc3bac6268ce1b/35206820152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fccc9ebe2a4c03d920cee6a2aa035dc2/15829384540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2e5aef777---16367604292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc1mintg7r1mtlotiml6q2l0m/12690300461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vb3jq736utv2cik05ulm386rje/73557497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7383c83443---96020853037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8r2aq0hd6j929u4ph9o4kc0utt/kowejofimivovupivifal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05cb5c153fedd09ba41903d052a128e8/8925415289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d26f5d12f7---zukonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef6f146e31---52861830523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d29a2e7d4f8c60bdaf86d2a0492428e8/pejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba1c44d420---35721667237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/nesikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=601+country+codePDF 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_off0000edaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAA 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 73f813d49443d48de676d02ff3b454319a63e97ed41b88fcc2c2e62009445d6a
font_01_sfnt_off00011bbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D3 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 3aa587e1c9e0c12ae915cdaf4c9363d5020f53f4ff24cff79b00648fb53cc53a