Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50a3e8c0fc8eb15f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-07-17 01:06:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 50fad914a094ece6930f9fa448a21bd5 SHA-1: 6f09683d560945653704ca7523d492a05b55b903 SHA-256: 50a3e8c0fc8eb15ff3ba99180179318a6b18b4eaf8c44ac931b33a5ec4801899
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The document body is unreadable binary data, indicating it does not contain user-facing content but likely exploits a PDF vulnerability or serves as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5fb5f90f5a72a8d961f18ff49c0ca77/40049887441.pdf
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/delubezewezotij.pdf
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/91621650847.pdf
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90k4aed6ka9abu6iau162sttv6/zutigosupidamajoxikoki.pdf
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/rozibewo.pdf
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/puwufedi.pdf
    • https://laserbeautymachine.net/d/files/61677177244.pdf
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f27264d2d---poluxapunopefijijixi.pdf
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/55204195251.pdf
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdabcdd34647d7cff968c5ffae8bea53/zijuvuranijefaxupujewuwow.pdf
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/zusameduranutet.pdf
    • http://www.klimavill.com//data/editorfile/wobijalasumiwew.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cce2ce5f1---30559428135.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160950867dfda1---baferaf.pdf
    • http://smitheaster.org/clients/861344/File/selaza.pdf
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724c4d6f85f---27408504402.pdf
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/23768413775.pdf
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/52076743238.pdf
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/20659473657.pdf
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tunikatuzakoni.pdf
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb240a32e8b---23037537275.pdf
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/17563913628.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3529e34205eea8192c429cc5fd7e0c82/80263110206.pdf
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tc8eanb8k931fpfhulnj6sr1q7/wanutekezenifozuripividu.pdf
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jck29nqjgrf36hsggd3jvfp7r7/xemuzanajuka.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=theoretical+framework+in+research+proposal+example
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d51a.bin
7d220648a55707f27ae2535aa29a303e409acc5dc4312ca0533a108dd30c8fa1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD51A 16944 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001010a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011921.bin
6d15f75aef02252781f6aa019f5fa8243780acd181bf3a8b043dc14640acc339
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11921 10988 bytes