Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50ae4de23ae19f8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-08-29 23:18:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 18456533080be4a4920f95ec7456cf6b SHA-1: e165f01dd1ff7da7eebab5cec0e44cc2b6fe3c56 SHA-256: 50ae4de23ae19f8c9037d2f2b6038269e58b4228d1e3a5382dffac8c2dcc7ae7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing and trojan activity. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84061900771.pdf
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/dinajoj.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/resol.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f433a54b3---92738630425.pdf
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/83389482710.pdf
    • http://turhantur.com/turhantur/files/736318167.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16085c5286---xapozepetuxe.pdf
    • http://gmkms.net/upfile_editor/2021/files/lojuzuda.pdf
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/70297914088.pdf
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/18501982397.pdf
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1e95292f1---tanelipesek.pdf
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de27dd954107a57a04ff1506c94e4564/62543114204.pdf
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/duxuzufusorudosawu.pdf
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc743afbabd29ebb3fc5752327bcddcd/vavixuvanunewudumako.pdf
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f75868cfece---valifabalojafebalisujesu.pdf
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/79977270689.pdf
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/jiwubujezazoxojubizin.pdf
    • http://czapla-dachy.pl/public/images/fck/file/89585362397.pdf
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08aa934e2f4305d598f435996094e714/kowonolategonividozoxev.pdf
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a3ba49c97---89784044546.pdf
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/vazefagiroweki.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=gross+you+out
    • 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_off0000dcde.bin
f72872293c9f64ad4daec95ff99b37484a40783e1bcead6b4eba2a084c40ffe0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCDE 16920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010865.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10865 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001207b.bin
02117c3756eeb3c08a16af4f0c2164e6f4a53e7b8a42432de3566dcc739c0056
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1207B 9816 bytes