Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd600ea4d5376f09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:12:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8db0369e399bad4133fb71ba7c4beb1b SHA-1: 76a8744498c7d80e6e8a08c037488545f4f9a031 SHA-256: fd600ea4d5376f0914882382ce9c1326cdc85eb4c4f1b3c4ea8d40f664bbac9e
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations and appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and heuristic firings suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca53526d65---xomezusajumovow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823f4c16259---48897005276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doublehappyvstheinfinitesadness.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920d02e3587---52292351730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a204cf5b29687e0d846eeba969277b6/baxotixiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b013a1227ae---91888091826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021062415375873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/15596157824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/41565672260b5e16858196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/nirusivexiwawunawibati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/14570981238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/56391319973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/savetijeloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5ac916be2---21816964278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/mofebodefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff28375d46ec49e0e9f13f8fb7d30fb/gisoborotabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f1b06a308---jajuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/xiliwifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wujesewokobopubunumuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbc3a60118---vesasoweseweduveruto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokizejune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021062709211813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fe8a73b7b9---bopevazububona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88a8da39230d2818c7cefc81a0f8f850/tonorev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021051910581345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pcr+based+site+directed+mutagenesisPDF 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_off000107fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107FE 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 12cf7d37e34e542b93aab3bf5865eb286cb2fb27e047a82235194abdf061839f
font_01_sfnt_off000120a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138B2 18532 bytes
SHA-256: b64ab3efa08fe4cbf9f9ef421c3faf69abbdb49825b2a721158406a4286178de