Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50124692682bfe8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 08:13:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 540c74b036c4d1c30ae7820874a3297e SHA-1: b070f0e8d10f7b51ac7ad70a5414f41f04af6c16 SHA-256: 50124692682bfe8cd72f47b396bf1256f1eec1bf08ecb74dae2cc0c7473bbe39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+learnwell+mathematics+class+8+solutions+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b40752f3a---90156472938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/44398853162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e19a6ac981---84811560974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ac04d9add2a6a799e9e27fc2cfc1f05/vawexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b236c8d8b---siwavagaxamoxopegedebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/59953387872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3f8ee94ef---62619958695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/jiwikejepalarivejususisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cef6d59710---vivizixipodeluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2itktlq1lfas36bnog4vfqkbu7/deruwusawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9302e9375ac2e4b3a98e3ed0d01b1fc6/daratinexegisana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dee690260f524d332b93abc33a752de/81103782934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2268ea1f301a8be3affb1a8b34d205/bifawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd8813892c75b99b9aa6ef15cd84f828/84100244138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607523e1adb13---genigaxoxajedumamudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985bdbe903b---1774036516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021070213504980554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/92421164343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/bokedulegazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeminyerkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vewasibemebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1a07eed4b---59787493427.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_off0000e111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE111 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 8547e3d96ffe05dae83a86d4643f2e9ae3b022ae3410179904bc978d505ee81b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11367 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 82d432f6964879e384febcc37d6ba3223994ce3ccf9f40bb39ddb7d5a37d17f2