Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50d955a59da484b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8030bd8b44b9912d31ad0cfa3aa7ed57 SHA-1: 98eca22f8eebfae68c7b19e69dbe56980f0eeeb4 SHA-256: 50d955a59da484b5882655d888c49df5974618001178c27220dd4ba90fdd3d62
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 or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is part of a link farm designed to direct users to external, potentially malicious, content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern appears to be leveraging external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sodium+sulfate+and+silver+nitrate+net+ionic+equation
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/darawuguw.pdf
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/28078495303.pdf
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a616f0ce6c092b64bb811efb6c0d7ff/zosigebowezi.pdf
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22339a089b25b4015a2c2ffae466e7b8/82884505488.pdf
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/83920224477.pdf
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cff6e11eb8---gutirijijikiropu.pdf
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6b26f0c9ab---60268262378.pdf
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nrs91ju4j6r4k0otu0udti8gr/fukuxifigemalufuvekise.pdf
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b84b287ba6ace2bd3a6c2397a3acbf9a/towaxikeg.pdf
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9c1fdbc299525a34642f50ebe65ac9d/2926873748.pdf
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff27e585b0---rabitade.pdf
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76833ec86199540cfc6370085339612f/77665250881.pdf
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/juduwevufesumetugake.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0cf57991d1---60381975417.pdf
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/75221210491.pdf
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18def18af5b9375c79be2a563279c961/70037039861.pdf
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607033f80ca53---81812064084.pdf
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/14912695605.pdf
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac069c4738c---28771720063.pdf
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/neduxupanuzekirosodibit.pdf
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/wiwodesegoda.pdf
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e584b8fd95---54023744870.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_off0000ee27.bin
0be52293c94e42e61ec40710ca5d084bd482dd57eb069d3875bf21d41a873d78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE27 11024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010797.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10797 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fa9.bin
8440d7bf92e9352e2a2ec5980b5f539c844e27f9f8fedea3b8c1300c9df736e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA9 17188 bytes