Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2d76af1112be127…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-07-28 03:37:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d82f960665f5873bb0c4199f36e58c49 SHA-1: 50006aec637616500dd03febef50ebe8d865c04d SHA-256: f2d76af1112be127678aade2f0a4a109823caa44c9b90deaf38d2a4dc8cd4c1c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious content or phishing lures. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the compromised hosting indicate a high likelihood of redirecting users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b44dd7c2d---60108173922.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtrinh.vn/upload/files/gojafososipuzofamanavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/65324572139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/donjqihqchbkdi2h0edo3a422d/55662688758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/24304521076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/43831313164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olivier-frey.ch/user/web/file/puzum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/18616648723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ebfd16456---nomufew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d1bddf2090cd5ace91e96f390f1fe9d/80355452004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce9f3f0e1787f3fe725026b73cfbcddb/vesuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alnomiduc34lu6vp1rbdk5esjh/3166357433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607057ac5a71c---66789521369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9149b23079---11036994483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fce32a17b3---doxalijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100790c00498---xudefigiwuxixepuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608367745ae7e---tebuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvitraders.com/files/37515225070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c94be214255567c37fe85fbc90f89fa/16698101539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acedebe293e34f263454806908b5e8c3/towaseneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbcf6588f7---texoxusemujejogofitoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e2f38fb4d---dereviwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609050ef0ed8a---59690037048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natatourism.com/userfiles/files/banexinijegadarumizizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=modelo+de+cambio+planeado+de+faria+mello+pdfPDF 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_off0000d78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD78D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9F 17344 bytes
SHA-256: 4b6ab52adc1adf2832720b231007d3fa482fa391c5e0208c477b886e3a879a72
font_02_sfnt_off00011b88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B88 10648 bytes
SHA-256: cebc5d8365f3052a5e3992e86e9c722876618d42f7682414ee88ead7efee3bfb