Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50034be4e7d64398…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 22:01:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 80f57056172ad004cbd64fa78ed5aea8 SHA-1: caab3c2e9a5e45f321c9ff86e257e3113e6318b1 SHA-256: 50034be4e7d64398236b8fd91ba70815e08000f8c0f98682d55b8c42491c2b95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The presence of 'utm_term' in one URL suggests tracking for a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=richard+iii+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/95778754357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozenaxitetotumizajiraka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f68c39b2c6---20919790814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoannalisatinelli.it/userfiles/files/wimemenigoxujonidifisiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/77006594296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sualpturizm.com/userfiles/file/63467380056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/47133896565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomedia.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78215178123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunshin.net/userfiles/file/degebejixukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/37318099784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ffa9440c33d439f10d02207991e1f8/85513507345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/88994493001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamanhinhlcd.net/userfiles/file/wozofevezagemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceroki.com/image/files/wasuzepitonojalofude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/nitusofojojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/77033584011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19073238807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents/files/duratodisimolarino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e4f8075e4---90735953982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rafautama.com/uploads/file/66475219599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smsenerji.com/resimler/files/buxetanuwibato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio.com/contents/files/64288410990.pdfIn 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://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_off0000be6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE6A 16352 bytes
SHA-256: 02919c6a37a7801916ee53d7c48e36f6eada3cb08965f3b2b89eef6a0d8e8824
font_01_sfnt_off0000e841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE841 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010058.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10058 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 466d7f4c26d7f8656f10dfb620f274557a952daf62328ca9e65772b02e8fa199