Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcebadd31b7a2a59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:45:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0ad82f6dde4e1da17f786ac2b876b279 SHA-1: dc667d104e054111a33152e3c451b1ce80d6f8e1 SHA-256: fcebadd31b7a2a59d657541e2516d0c57e324d7c158a0c18412ed5a42cacf74e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, specifically targeting the 'formcraft' and 'super-forms' plugins for file uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDFs hosted on compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to distribute further malware or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30ee6d8be7---perinol.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4c7903120---65331288784.pdf
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa980bd3940d759ae15e1aae90cf4f6a/92748891538.pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79n1ae8d1k7jc786nbnro6g1r7/93118591537.pdf
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc3d39e599---kogafadenobave.pdf
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/zofisan.pdf
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7lari8nlhgnp4l918b2293lhhj/bexujiroluzufodam.pdf
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715825546a2---zusibu.pdf
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fdf86b9baa8e9dca7489f65bc2adffc/94181259083.pdf
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/35401169629.pdf
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098266265a44---mokolutenukeguxe.pdf
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/falegepus.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/39357224187.pdf
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/regosinarov.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c0c60ae06---marapezijixogujubalox.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073dee2ed220---nixijuku.pdf
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b35a473db---delakifafiladomaw.pdf
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5mtuvdej3rj2jou94koob2nvs4/roridotuwujini.pdf
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/61966401052.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3eac61cc3---28259140680.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/099050c3d442ced19689f21e12c67f96/19313255438.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=dual+platelet+therapy
    • 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_off0000e716.bin
1ebcd84b1d8535e7b36b6606b5430b623a080106cd9309448cc6f52031b92b12
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE716 16828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000112bc.bin
a2a91a18111ecbfc4138024ce0968016fcc253f802af69dc883f2359bdfee8ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112BC 10080 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001296d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1296D 16792 bytes