Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50a73ef56149c82e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 06:41:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 6781341c6f659105d0206bafd6f9fb21 SHA-1: a944418f5be9b1ad777d4840bab8b195f4f968dc SHA-256: 50a73ef56149c82eafd54e04a93492071fc860ebbadbabf9c1691543a274262c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/pidolasilimerule.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/kunabisuxuzaluwepunedila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/gofowibuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/gikerala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/021c21eed3334879224e2e6cca4e10c2/15398002993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49097452ccd57b333241730af36172b8/sutinoguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48ae033599---90837574601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2dee5338bd---26199540547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easybuildapp.com/files/uploaded/files/pumudipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/konovoziperawuvepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e85f735c272b42540186dbd2204be504/84060518633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/pukaxupuvawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb7d471cb0f---7852988047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=arabic+english+stories+pdfPDF 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00012fe1.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12FE1 24324 bytes
SHA-256: 71a121d97d987ab24654515742741bef43259bdb5f351127146e9304a231f814
font_00_sfnt_off0000f337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF337 5544 bytes
SHA-256: c1cbfb2ee94b2d863b1bbcd4c1e3fcc1b31be54ff473da1f36248b56dbc345d8
font_01_sfnt_off00010602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10602 12720 bytes
SHA-256: 20d7e7fe5e944aa58d9a8d9f8f19eff8641291862bedbbdf0a1e479c376798b3