Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9966e5cf5c758de4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 19:18:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0f301bde294bcc689343bbcba35dd57b SHA-1: a320543a7e9c0f77d7fa6a1e74bd9af13ff3c79e SHA-256: 9966e5cf5c758de45af4a13211b1354d36cfa53fc42dfa98e9f4072eadd110db
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the link farm structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+save+html+page+as+pdf
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de964c2896f9134c50c3d28c40d5e3a/vapujag.pdf
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/banusize.pdf
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zevumuzonarefafumawe.pdf
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/begegikakakaralavudaj.pdf
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a080a2c74d1---90682362019.pdf
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608451a5b8d64---kasasuleb.pdf
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/98629995730.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aef1ec2fd8c91a3d432d2e9f39adf945/kanesuzodiledewijev.pdf
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ii20ej36mrt4n5bgkt5ugf8fsc/kutipamadejugatup.pdf
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf6e3d02c5be2cff4e7028006d7e593b/pinin.pdf
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0451b55a1f9e89d6db3930b8c811b9b0/24546061900.pdf
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1k5arrh4u56bl8324bha7vrb17/58293055389.pdf
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d798cb025fe---45458043053.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d3e4484ab---73016834904.pdf
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbc2dd6b71---fitowesofu.pdf
    • http://monroe74.com/clients/871877/File/43560136225.pdf
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/wefarapajalugubogowikifo.pdf
    • http://vamaconsulting.sk/userfiles/file/siganabowugiboza.pdf
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4391f2695---9797108564.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkb0d5ff47jsfimg71arak7um4/92909103127.pdf
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7c9115fa45bcd49dd3f18041df4b807/35000156122.pdf
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ab3c4395b---35804113007.pdf
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e7dbda32b---77753013231.pdf
    • 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_off0000e658.bin
3de9a97c69f06e3075a671ca567eecd35f6c07ccb9c020499adb21ade28cbc1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE658 17480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001141b.bin
42dab86410c6cec45b434770d014daffc5a35ac82cdb71996cb3da56495ef021
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1141B 10792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ccf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CCF 16792 bytes