Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50423ec0cb6783f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-08-17 07:24:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2dfcd503f48ed4988ae4dcba65b64d68 SHA-1: c03276d9d6729651b5172d5e00a27347d3df7158 SHA-256: 50423ec0cb6783f805873cb21425a0e8b33670513ea53c605b446744745cdb81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or are part of link farms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30722437265.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/gawigunipunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ed8e5b05e1346d297d3aecb7fdf6768/28050753938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29c401197c---25574288793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/98864709340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7095448ee2---rovilatawolabekefejale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsmpublicschool.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/29676160650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hornets88.com/clients/56662/File/79519162943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788a4e5db16---43123358927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdf8njcp9d77v2tk6rjniv6gr2/73794820742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/wejusipiwetajegaroru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettogherardi.eu/userfiles/files/99325219496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799d0a2d8ee---80766646294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63719676311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98e7ed6a59b366ddf0c0e0651f6dff85/79497891953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kejeluwobowefodekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/zesikevidokixivafulaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ade9a5ce18---93534830130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098446f153e9---vomebexadifetuzefuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba4f8e93301---42593316225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/22743025698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents//files/85515000290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/pejigufazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e017e06acc16bea6f30af17cea3ac41/ludazuxodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/rotenazavadigewamodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=ana+britannica+ansiklopedisi+t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e+pdf+indirPDF 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_off0000c8e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8E4 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 2fb7d5e83aab079f7a421efdd1a1a4f37180416c9808f99f285d1c972e89fa72
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B4 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 63eacf228a2bd6b4d6c1be956ac72e80ffc2aee47e98b422d91fd275d510837f
font_02_sfnt_off00010dca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DCA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1