Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50ee7cab22bd5c7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:09:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 921302d4b8430c89c1cb4de7389b2daa SHA-1: 6e3fea49e9f6165ac61fad4f5850859c7bddb43f SHA-256: 50ee7cab22bd5c7eb375cf7d46a8c74219db8978c2079ce68b13df3333127f32
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious or compromised sites suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=notes+musicales+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5738aef2e7a30729767881e972bf5f82/8438735120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/43140409627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladue62.com/clients/2/2d/2d0487a90c18d3a1b3df44839405a665/File/pifidikokoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210717_010126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/56279126828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b52fa7c4bc4983993bcd56de9cbb877/33553739672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/pafakaluturuduwugapozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1623ad86fb---50365281121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukkies.be/userfiles/file/gubifaradamip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/3994099148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bca8642482---rogakojaniniras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc9391b62a---96848975117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/lebujetefiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumosushingrill.com/uploads/files/35923960598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/wezuwubususawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11a00cf0f8---pegamikuzezumep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/4612739409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c06b96d6---ginibavolibojemuxosolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/zofasemigusutepumuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/dogixamaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtop-eg.com/userfiles/file/xofavebepurozuvaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12030404916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/pagegeriwefulasatiwijoren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b78bb41b74ebb9e881855da2f9e365ff/20690295662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edenestates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wirepemepowiv.pdfIn 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://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_off00010724.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10724 21840 bytes
SHA-256: 6ca06370e09e23cf793e40aaada92dbfbe38c9140d9c340e524c7ae6633ca510
font_01_sfnt_off00014027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14027 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001583e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1583E 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 12fcfa637b7ebaa96df00dbd317f5cae42f8f270c2b03a0a6c5d543164f2f945