Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f95d02ca00067816…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 23:26:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e27d69d95e030f5ec11a81d2e7fc048f SHA-1: 934e9789d364c693304fde78a877a17d41dc1692 SHA-256: f95d02ca00067816f74e14b1cb01871e0dcb8f8ee8e5416fa39f94e1a82a1bca
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links and the compromised CMS upload paths are strong indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e323d6cda8---jozuwuvopuluguni.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vnsteeldetailing.com/UserFiles/files/gozozuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soeurs-scjboran.fr/soeurs/upload/files/40477838010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/38026559995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/26325066661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emekyesiltepe.net/images_upload/files/makaxuzurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91938160121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/99395020096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/notasilagaxozefevomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ratchadatitan.com/UserFiles/File/42120737594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdrhqq7hmh53dvg31rk4b3nhv5/84690047532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/86260224583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/pupodofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamhosting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tipepokakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396fb6a6533---79831508136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/75817101604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krr-nfe.com/suratnfe/UserFiles/File/dikutapiselopalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/31318177316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/94698318430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613742f00cb9e---vegado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info/files/44709373044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/69049355195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613338b6882d6---77600627936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30359649447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelejas.com/IMAGENS/CKFINDER/files/46810615010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+third+largest+countryPDF 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_off0000e958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE958 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 74159ad17018563fb07cd6de8319bd187faca58aabbee3130c2f6efaba3af7c3
font_01_sfnt_off00010220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10220 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A32 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 2eb29a6f097ac70d38abf01b272d834127fedae9447357512ade5eb21102cf8d