Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9ea53946762afae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-07-18 05:36:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 10f1865231ea664c382f0128c4fde7fc SHA-1: 2b21e5057abd0801eb933289a15b66b9e3a1a785 SHA-256: f9ea53946762afaeeb1987170105d1ee3af8869634a0d09b6c1037ddaf98ffe0
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. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or further stages of an attack. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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 https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806be5a17a6---88640099779.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56257206560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/24850763347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c67c2af78e---gabexibowisinadobixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/tibivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2315ca39c3---sojoremonemisiborunome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6a7abae83---5919935269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wphs69.com/clients/1/13/13dd0a1135c99f886ff4006aa3c820ba/File/37128156099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/19884225788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e55bca1dd---62919640691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8286f8920d2ebf147feea17449dd042/84155006452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608084b9ba67d---24593916090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ths4gne357u0qn819mln9kvc/90878376118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nf9j157hmatipf5l85dgbtqf4q/78538108854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988e2a35a8a---fovuvetegibasob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc130d9467---soradibawapibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dacf1cc00c502d754e7bac2df3e1040/3927182352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846190e7bd8---rezewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/lijido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/mororogorisivoladubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/77194967054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edcasys.com/ci/userfiles/files/xusekodipubefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096adc1378cc---79461610549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210609_853DACE597F61180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b566f95e278---napifugotipofuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synowka.pl/galeria/file/50624822130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ba7b25edc---wogaragodixofemawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+save+powerpoint+handouts+as+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_off00010961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10961 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 3ed6e5088925de66927f40d9da8f8da2c89ddd6a3e8c1289143daa1ffe9daab9
font_01_sfnt_off000136da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014ef1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EF1 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 671c53974b46a1d08241321f0aaec653a1d6afbb4469915c198b9d14e926c774