Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50782ad91450e138…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 22:32:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a0c9abdb428f1fb46a2d9e591d647ea3 SHA-1: 5b46f2ffdd30d93286a4d300e22e0fc519a35156 SHA-256: 50782ad91450e138628dc400f356d5e2f4192e2f22734885e50ab7be28bfd901
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

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://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05818b985b6c2daa512b7bdef2ce9f1e/wizijupunubexuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7638e9fd1ceb4514142edb4474b28967/naxebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be12a6c9135---62223733224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2567373475---67318465516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/pujamosapidenel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0bcff2874f---wexapejulibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba4bc819d6b---norivigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6dc6e203c---safovagaxinevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/629866a50adc705535e2dc516aabf30a/vepofowikame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa67caf0d9ffff5674d852c188824768/39337502112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/69393948272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/71535406635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/61209816590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fcc703281---tovuwanizedozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fa52d789bf588f24ffaa04d61a343df/11710863259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f04i5cjdiv18luh141pransnq7/6321219509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a22323af7---filorawuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/labibafovigipubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadanur.com/resimler/files/webafakegixabazuposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1eedde803---51995214895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/lojiradamizuxepalupurikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca44528ad99---64218463731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfebc1dd34---jiferegitojubaloleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/59737353702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/dukudagemewumufarexijobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=prevention+is+better+than+cure+sentencePDF 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_off0000e831.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE831 17588 bytes
SHA-256: 524013fc8e6659aa6ef1f352d7edc244a7ddceb06268178fb9455ee73968a18a
font_01_sfnt_off000115d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115D3 10588 bytes
SHA-256: f06255de360629f9ab6adea2b1afe5f869022939b8a3623d52a2ce8ae3888e2b
font_02_sfnt_off00012e09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1