Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3180e8e9f5c36eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:11:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 005955191a2380d0005e2548a12549d1 SHA-1: 88305415d09fd778502782810eca6d8088b0b090 SHA-256: f3180e8e9f5c36eb75b53bf4a0ba06d7b2c7af2829d33a916275dfb19bdbde13
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised WordPress installations. These links are likely part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine rankings or to serve as a distribution point for further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to leverage compromised infrastructure for illicit purposes.

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://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aad1442b1d---gowem.pdf
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02079df91639a10c14443c34627a61f1/773546181.pdf
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt7s8l4h81iot452o9l9q2nng5/76756710253.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/578117df53c27ef07bfd5fc4f36088f0/74516534894.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608010430f6ea---46234864814.pdf
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/as775f97tqkpk5i39cki5v1jug/satisurikudategusamewidop.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8efhai0mqueee923e20s8ppick/80365452446.pdf
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/boxenudo.pdf
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/wepozowegopenewe.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20agg1b6ek9f2fnmdm0n2nfolb/jedapu.pdf
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3218964f8f---vixetoxategevok.pdf
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c142457b634---14006568196.pdf
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e50ee3d7c---dezepanumapokaw.pdf
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66a99d5761---juzugeragar.pdf
    • http://starlightcelebrates.ca/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/wofubevanudiputakutifef.pdf
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55fe4b6935ddc58a8548cc8639cebcff/72517334971.pdf
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb864c0878---buremusal.pdf
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6ee157acb---rateguzemabijiku.pdf
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/69422420829.pdf
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/75546841277.pdf
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/19076265788.pdf
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/34834937824.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dad2349f9b---kelonuto.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=south+africa+learners+license+test+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff6a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001177c.bin
d25de934be12a3201cb8a8fe24bdf495a06e9f8fa2446755d3cb97bf5077f9a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177C 17976 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001466a.bin
4f6d1fdf97e7feb8d8f78d9a500f1deb2bd9971a555e2ffb652978f369b8b0f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1466A 10892 bytes