Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b50a3ab230f6a1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:13:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f57cd66f84f1ecced50033543ff6e564 SHA-1: 6054ed1faeff08d43aaf663da444538fdd7075b6 SHA-256: 0b50a3ab230f6a1b52d833c96eb2e7a13ad55a2d18bda0cd5fec3560d01559dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14b7d1383b---73039307520.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/rikalufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/lijif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746f8440db6---26256097024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ottopianos.nl/files/25921730050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/41481314509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5592bf34beed312331832e0bd17501a0/romivipugaliwafevosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48082937722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/72252837537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9cd65a038---38930130977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/ramiluwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/somawigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b0fc4e8f03d390c711b374dd03d1c44/jasipipemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55thocscompany.com/clients/62662/File/rokejojalifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/13070091757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f36aa0232---19984993775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hausdergesundheit.net/userfiles/files/54355518912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/75259171961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d7319aaaa---76403994449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e8c013591---kuxesapeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mskabel.cz/UserFiles/File/91758277845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b6e286dce6---19735480555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/jewisaruvibetikutugugopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/bimimutezase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/ruxenojimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=nuevo+diccionario+biblico+ilustrado+holman+pdfPDF 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_off0000c020.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC020 11168 bytes
SHA-256: dbdd7e6f73029df862fd7a6f8e5c01495d8e43804d8cf4c62e5c1538103a1fac
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E7 18932 bytes
SHA-256: 1697064e3576899b5e5e5cfa47f1839ed601aa5ce3c3e7a8fe4b9fe70978d411