Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c50dba0423f486f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:37:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d04b6bd3243bef4d8bff25c84a155732 SHA-1: 68d095284f3f78bb11f5efff90571f84dac86520 SHA-256: c50dba0423f486f043e712d0ba4942effa1d120720420aa16ddd51b8a9c2d8de
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets suggest exploitation of user trust to redirect them to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://unseretochter.ch/images/file/bazuxuzuradejapujerugule.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada41723546---tezinivibubete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc284b26e91---muxolosupokoxepewofike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c56i8fot40bl963g23pv2rblh/zaluvukaviwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/dubulatutizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161238c5be01df---76150559538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/73010041981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staples1981.com/clients/b/ba/ba027a536d51c1d997ee76cae6dc9017/File/66038186345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joinsocialbubble.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/gakelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30sa2s1qot939ir7i6l8ts4865/6417446127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6llfce2p0kn17vvc9om5de68b/rebumutuvapegigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75610e3139---30964757706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa50d8e4ab1---12792589013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92e007875b---93738892844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/revibudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/74218440295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4201211957---47080120572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeljdrbugnld846smg5bo74l9t/lekisolawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyhotelsgroup.com/uploaded/files/87067565344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/78206631382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607840aaedad7---28761677400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6dcaed0ee6678c7ccc768b38dbf60e0/zapofurexuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poledance-chrudim.cz/files/file/tasolukefonegodoleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://networkinglikepro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41859828055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6093803de12c764641de32f5cead8f1b/pikagepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/996e478eee0bd08acda9d31e31d73d8a/10600710114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/genal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+crossing+jk+simmonsPDF 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_off0000eb34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB34 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 903714f10489c447ab6cc4e254459aeda421b9782d6e49ae29849563ebe6a3ab
font_01_sfnt_off000117bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117BC 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 8676f4fc0d779609cc56deee47472340ae2f8bc19960c7c53656f38f56f41bb0
font_02_sfnt_off00012f95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1