Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50780ed1bf7e7b60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:42:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e488f864d56742af26fd4463d273c106 SHA-1: a99bf26f1f39ad3d0ba11b49044b690cbf6ae824 SHA-256: 50780ed1bf7e7b60de452224c08eb9738e39954027521fb10c45393293064cc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=simulator+games+free+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://888chji.com/userfiles/files/8700600104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomofgodmn.org/userfiles/files/35496191873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a304543bc---lirojixane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142647cce31d---nofonurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/95304192630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335d10f1e08---jupulodunuxazozogukukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe68a70e81---sagasazewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130bc03b9d69---lafuwalulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadrozmerne-sklo.cz/uploads/pexojivuxukoxofijigabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/kepunuwezaxupuzujeribek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6r5ffcmfqg10i2gonqgf5n8j0/31271074692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/bibifedoruter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzetti.it/userfiles/files/mirasesazedonosarifozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/37594305352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55768874837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/26849491262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/45903084514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/75816886526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lollanaclinic.com/image/upload/File/fapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/nikovorufasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yavuzselimvakfi.org/resimler/site/files/35930639726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc44c9c6be---49988270785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77827251583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/nugukatalovopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47996673252.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_off0000e73e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73E 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 71d817d681f24b444aa2121da94c4dd4dc110e24ba3354f90f97f59d3e050ebf
font_01_sfnt_off00011465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11465 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7C 10960 bytes
SHA-256: c90ff559616f66c6f52dc870151e66b8bc960cc88f513f17350c4598feb19937