Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 250d574c84faf7ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:02:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 11f07f813bba63a26f2abce5d25ccaa0 SHA-1: a782149f49800ec7ed8cab5dab433efd27e503bf SHA-256: 250d574c84faf7ce26f3bf4c0894a23babc375d6298c5ff59be942be5b7253d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://argyler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773fafc50e1---18867093025.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://varosom.hu/userfiles/files/26970794540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338e5deabde---rubezoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9700a97a2---7611557483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/padivosujugapeditifob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/49333105367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36lndci76j68fdor88ak2rvef6/84727384386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samilove-payitforward.com/clients/f/f9/f9b0b202ed5d2cb263a89f8a9bd08a94/File/gugolilezepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e54db0da36---78300051776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thekolkatapackersmovers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofisawabexogaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lire-les-notes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad1c728e96---94144091213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2ffae643cc---suzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728013d9c5e---97641313675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vqj7mni2b5q6qi25ceqksrgeq/37481334379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h4ta50drme1q5pstvruqgcfj0/rutepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17234fe12152e2403634e6776b4f6380/96031004740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campingwithconvenience.com/files/files/39460214316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/43725304343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/md29v740s72d0f6sca9if3h72j/kelukuwizexofojulonano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/46941929392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/61334168925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073be4c36997---28495310592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/dodugoveligapexuwefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/tegasiginofunepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=l%27etranger+translation+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_off0000b35e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB35E 14756 bytes
SHA-256: 131d167cff5afa2e6fb2365766e25a7eeab6cd425752a1fcac654a401a0200bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d83a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD83A 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 93a57b3f894ebd8d553d18809b851711a47227d84d81bbd29880870af8a136ea
font_02_sfnt_off0000f095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF095 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1