Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa97555242addf4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:30:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1deee07d28d1d3c97e1d36b8fbfce06b SHA-1: 508f617e29b3027f5c4968a5ff87a35b0d841b8e SHA-256: fa97555242addf4e8ef89a95d452ebcc8cd8863bcbb0c6d2a1b5a98ccdcb139c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://sunarfactory.com/userfiles/files/kewasoto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18ccb0ba9e---51555609661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/12195196582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba59bcae61c---39080457201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/rubakutupalisafunuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/musamotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608353d215e5a---15828245352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d59bccf4089---vojidagezuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/radcvjpj1idsfqaqeri1qavn79/zagutabika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65da8019feaad6dad7e358054312a92a/11649252430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oko55kkthged00i4s23sc0m8c6/55143994050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4u2b8gjhh9gf5t5ptiborkqkq/6061492703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa5d83c61c---71431537812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/kowiromena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/guvunukiwamimeradezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb8d27f5c7fc5a5413aed259f8d120e8/xavuzirugekiwaroganisazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54a67a2d25ef3dcc31ba68d3e24cd0a7/lapurufimamupubuteluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/ziberer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6c2a73063---56814038362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/renex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080de0f4dcca---pinon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e0839d73c1ba09390e8b8a4db26b74e/36908573883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8af820e26a53097edc637349ba242546/13275915095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=diphosphorus+trioxide+ionic+or+covalentPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6efd6e5c47c83a1ea748cadd564c4f35/zupekoxodatupigujuloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c544.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC544 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000db25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB25 10880 bytes
SHA-256: e2645a6b481113ea41e1b2f1a428451b0d3f6b2e890497789e0bb7988d47f188
font_02_sfnt_off0000f454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF454 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 2b075c3896b86ab52c438550b87fbd3c11e3ffa65c27dbc0b6d38ef4ed8c2eec
font_03_sfnt_off00012228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12228 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1