Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 250afe921f54f911…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:10:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 52217f8c39a6269b110f8161d4f8d1c7 SHA-1: 4149c8816f576117bdbf27d8d26c444379f85c6a SHA-256: 250afe921f54f911e24d655dcd221c96740b2257d6b74f7fc1e0256fb41320c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=white+insects+on+plants
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/dumofapovozoxedevaj.pdf
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/jozagamodenaxixat.pdf
    • http://xdata.pl/app/webroot/img/ckf/files/90497761582.pdf
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e3901f07b---tabutidegodeparasupanoni.pdf
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/49675842862.pdf
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/192210178008.pdf
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/fetakorixokejinajux.pdf
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774cd9b1a40---velazizekasaluri.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7b2ba7b97f39a0f0bc81259318cef33/likoxosiluko.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hopgfakf8i66dsojgmmo9l2du/25492264242.pdf
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83836920079.pdf
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e514c7f480e7adcead5b7c142855e3d/4634439573.pdf
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/palojuvozaru.pdf
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972828a15f4---25093101362.pdf
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/159a0c6b3a7349e8f1e930359ba10736/42682067683.pdf
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/lajazalurer.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00604c02818b48ef208851619217ba19/55393175937.pdf
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33268295518.pdf
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/levuneg.pdf
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5728928873---sobifilubilokokenadabun.pdf
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfe18tshbpte07hu3jv1j0rcfk/vurenogejebevusus.pdf
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1s1sham90r3utgl0g1ks95fmj/13127454051.pdf
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6409ee9435c04d7d214d1a4318f5d13/fokonatesuwinaro.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_off0000ef09.bin
d9b8f4d8bdf643eaff7b81e908ec597177bf1500dc1a5a79280c99842991ac39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF09 17340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011b8a.bin
83f85c71947b963af017930efe583fdadb70efbd80117429daeeaf19778a96af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B8A 10364 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000132f0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132F0 16792 bytes