Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5544ed5bb6d9394…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 12:52:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9d05c0b64ad125190b99bda3f3f51f49 SHA-1: 4af225f7f8ca6aca532c98b367531907d04d200c SHA-256: f5544ed5bb6d9394f303f4003451ddc08d6b27dbce5c86feecdf761dbdedce15
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host and distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acaab358ae2---dowilisagomuwu.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af77a16d468cb0e78e360e6ae4f159f5/pibubi.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bac423bd0---75147120777.pdf
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/parabitoredot.pdf
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee03f6d2b5ac6d868122c14eaa9ca8b1/21463258513.pdf
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/93901858626.pdf
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5102ee6e20e346de76a0c24020db1f2/61726004376.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43f7481b3e3fc691b149b001366d1a8d/56540290825.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b622a90a6c1---37773867573.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fba2776a1---mutip.pdf
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210620_144214.pdf
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8b9699e53d5eaa17753a9760ac92593/84742645919.pdf
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bded79a19c8---32730891351.pdf
    • https://digireg.lu/upload/21029258789.pdf
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082384445707---parebilojufoluraka.pdf
    • http://wf515345.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/99120040589.pdf
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/20423684608.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35o6ch8b6rm69gvmd9jvdj6530/kiwitekasujutufibalu.pdf
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/jevasedonoxopenekuriji.pdf
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/gixulot.pdf
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f86f32f433a914dfa202c0ccd9eff2d/57566880667.pdf
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47d0d66694---vutufumezopi.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8jsjmd487fu6j2aolu03m45c0/vovofuxafawoxizas.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ts+tet+previous+question+papers
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/ramuzumonizigotovowapur.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1f4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa0b.bin
ff73d3e3354e15c8eea4677d6c78cee7a8f3e4b6c08510ac1c0f936e3ddc159a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA0B 10472 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000111fa.bin
d0e02ea597b059e12c640018e4c0b859d2fbe31b167f59dc9fd0dc6423c65742
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111FA 16488 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000128e2.bin
fe24083f40a0a0a1d6165fa4dafcb835cfd1ac8dde313d47b3e47d278c2cbfe7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E2 17296 bytes