Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50a8f0ec785b03a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-06-13 07:17:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3813b47adaf884477bca95b002d7d72d SHA-1: 85a22b5d53a91473d6a2f435688c13067a944637 SHA-256: 50a8f0ec785b03a8ee946ea0a3508ecb65bc60a6f70c4edb8070cc3bcf9e2838
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body suggests a lure for 'Szsinocam manual download', indicating a phishing or social engineering attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or lead the user to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=szsinocam+manual+download PDF link annotation
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adfee37863ee63fdd7017cd0f8de0d5a/6537574026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c2da64a18e7384ee30577f4116feb38/totidavilomaxupubesavebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8eb882fb7---44575915126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e244a8882051a4edc794569150fe2a8/navedodexazilibewutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a172fbc41814f0dc88462000f1211e70/61506900980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6on62jf1c8m44t8h6qtpfbqk7d/wiranakad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/divk9dbh4kq518uk2ca3odhh50/ninevimepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769f4bee971---90597447295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/undhgmuiofthhpof8lau02vq23/jegati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/30215331740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a9a236ee9---lifolalorutepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/depizumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/32856950968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a688f364873686f90b7d7d9857d9486f/56472277490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b162716d8---mavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/27298422407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvns9lc05a5biorpdgka9ci45v/85140923926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f67b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF67B 4916 bytes
SHA-256: 0255b588845715d53362b470131bb1b94eba1523b7ba39ee280e6344fea8503e
font_01_sfnt_off00010710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10710 11144 bytes
SHA-256: b29ba5e7934433815885bc49b376ce3094d646933448d82c460ace2663aa568f
font_02_sfnt_off00012d46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D46 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e