Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 250edf4de835f72c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.8 KB Created: 2021-06-14 07:02:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: eaa51fea51fc94dda1960d6a1cf6b6d1 SHA-1: d6ded8cd24fb1724886e4f4acdc85f9787ce7ccf SHA-256: 250edf4de835f72cb1a05071b2016a5e0d2b4f9dd649a3e01faa435bc5759f1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious websites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=haikyuu+s4+part+2+ep+1 PDF link annotation
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64e64395d567c706c31bce96bf624826/fidumaneforugojuwivawiwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/ramolutusozofuxuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fr9t046eeb1nsfjfd19m06b454/rumagopuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnuorsb2c4fm45d6ahd666eesv/topenobokodopam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/botipujajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895b12e55f6---82034283118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be2f005e047---fasesobori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/54204518200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3444ac50cb---dobowapomipowegexadisofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/pasuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813da78c7fe---kaluxevuwosidufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/zivalesibikagojafogekure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a2878803c---23484144388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/79634581157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d5f7be81c---41059615113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65e714abd531f7c9c2aa735390586537/99659360701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1dif6cg3cmg7bnboj1mah4a2f/12485059238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010b7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B7E 24044 bytes
SHA-256: a275fb9104ffaf9ba5c58afbceb012a2bc65096dee2da7c0d4cf5364332ea744
font_01_sfnt_off000156dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156DC 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 9168389637d5674382f96334924860efc8225d1f565577f58238fae875d830b8
font_02_sfnt_off000168a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168A2 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 807c4eb68856f2417b03939d0ce55f55924e7cb90b09833337545399030d452b