Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50affcce49a33a7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-06-11 04:09:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 380c34dc7f23146e2eb2a8a69f2e957a SHA-1: a4b7a019fb5917b4f96031596687a8eb2b08242f SHA-256: 50affcce49a33a7bf7f740857f80e41e47ba1c8beec079c1944100b9d68c1508
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user interactions, likely leading to phishing or malware downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure indicates a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linux+kali+hacking+tutorial PDF link annotation
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c7c5b702fe338ef07a1c1bb7e4225f9/jebanilalenamuzuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c721e395872fb1dbc31eb367145c783e/32802839875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e930602d7---rapepifowaguxazoxeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/60416385744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a553d1d15---gutefipaborid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0057a075f4cccaa0c2d4853f376d6453/norixudufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcdfee26092---gibifan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/kubisewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe6eb09b86a608c90c93f8e688f27a7/5940547113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b466eca962f---10725812768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upv8jat98tsf94v1kc5qvfugpk/pajurunigatonepodoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06800a3ad2a8886e5ae9ca182b896ed2/56887207063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c31293d249---89275245218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/68630907571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e97716e50---22014326275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelindigha.com/FCKeditor/file/rozasizugusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/48116139122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C9 4956 bytes
SHA-256: e9c26fd75c4bb2102ea0a252cec50e98c392bff28047a60a021f26be853ca895
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A8 10368 bytes
SHA-256: b52a4f91d537348bb99459dadc2990672c9728bc22bf6ea0cdb3f5ac06a39879