Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66ba3173d557f8b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-18 10:31:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 3d0b01310398f81b8fdcc01878472162 SHA-1: 457282f7df7e49d26f2f946bc5af121babe58585 SHA-256: 66ba3173d557f8b252eee13e1f47248e022e782a0d04dfc673a6a29803daeded
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or for SEO manipulation. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external URIs supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9819

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://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4053e8e8c---ripapetuwaseza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/46228636948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/tuvafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/mesoleguwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/pagogaxifolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e85850db40402450311556132368944/xawumiloxezav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46425613224c3765a6300b31926ce758/gaterudatokawerakavex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/511e3205202ef181098b18def9f93b18/mobifimofinozofimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8a83c64c2---96356397555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/16373516523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f90f3bb21---sorofodudisarezusilolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b578d10695---24121524238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiksmodalux.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/tefukufoxubowawodexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/41357617666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/20533625682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-vietnam.com/upload/files/50176855610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhtruongson.com/upload/files/4635113437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e172aae0a3---tasemivekibunimenenuvaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcce8a36142f40bb6407fe9b9c3c7b7f/24858120084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4c9704db59---17106716533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/rimovebewererusakilelize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adbb902989b---99524035119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/57270784828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bc30b8b0542f990546135c85ada9b6f/sowosijirexebewidinano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eec3a868b7---vikifozisuvubipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89478f4475ac311f07fe3b5260a6d4f8/50243759312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/29137071940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=que+significado+tiene+el+girasolPDF 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_off0000e78a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78A 18688 bytes
SHA-256: ecee3dd72ebf4a9c0650061c024dc3a89f911a7675ff10f6b7f431fe6b329414
font_01_sfnt_off00011700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11700 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F17 10808 bytes
SHA-256: f8eb72f9b09a0a014bbf46be32dd56860e850721fd310597ce408993226e2225