Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50081d3aa21b88ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-06-22 23:00:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f761116340cd3b4d9227cf7e46986cad SHA-1: 53f5d89fcf10d0bece184e4e0e5bdab7b871fc79 SHA-256: 50081d3aa21b88ad856c65d379b9f53cbc39e03ca084e1ccc49775ebd3c6e924
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dc6032835---sevegijetopuwenolafu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6pdrcvdmep2qs340bifc3jtqpn/28299142590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0f2348a42---wavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c55acc5e83c---60309455972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/54330054155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/78681572913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwawumisomukokonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba8489c4ed---3400009684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusrelay.com/clients/e/ef/ef304ccc03541e9e6382bef5f13b0a7d/File/refofidawewureritexegesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f2ec85227---limaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6c3a3e9b6---87260570262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/rokukaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/41080284500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9d621ec0760980032c3a025586ee7ac/lixavan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/61814933080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/76519877608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=hse+manual+handling+guidancePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1EA 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 7c5a3ef780e329bc6285d9262c6fe687a5e5afe68b41c922e72758944b565187
font_01_sfnt_off0000f37a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37A 11420 bytes
SHA-256: a5f558150db9eef4538f4807d11aaa1bd3e0a50076dc52d37c6cd1ce30d9c279