Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50b69eb5ff836870…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-31 21:47:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d1577b9c8f7143c67d045b3255b28969 SHA-1: 22a4dbeb58e3cc51cb5b4219245b2fe2e440dee2 SHA-256: 50b69eb5ff8368709d6244771ed789268afa8651491ba31937df7ae055165a9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on disposable domains, with one URL specifically mentioning a driver download for a Canon printer. This suggests a phishing or social engineering attempt to trick users into downloading malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/30728991496.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.koeru.eu/failid/file/30662754601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a849ef68298---sojozuramesolukarapugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/75454529131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/taduganowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210517065003139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68454ea3156329a3a9de10da841eb9f1/pazetumizogujadumeval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4195423e7---rekegilogisugiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sawulotinolijijaxemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mh-gartengestaltung.de/userfiles/file/53958788393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b323abb3c77---xuzevizuralujemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20833946410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spoj7ro7dlm9gvadomsec9ff6r/nabupofajusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/muxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b90727c11c6---zapigalusodiraloxato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a8bf3a8d01b82d36025e638d6edfc99/gizisutavavanopobux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0m105tap8q79kf82te687jt1v2/vagowowovigof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/xotarapezalogirigabijapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/falurinoxuxolidumuravot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bdc4dd60a3---94576130926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/vagexakurifajufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77209123c2667192c544758bbe7f43f9/86461920829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ec901844fce4cff5a4ef5e4d8972165/73173346248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/87859239444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+driver+%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0+canon+f+158+200+windows+7PDF 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_off0000e7b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFCE 12572 bytes
SHA-256: 1952820151e5a78b29628e2ab45fbec760ab2a838a2366c09e4ae7bd6764d947
font_02_sfnt_off00011dd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD1 22948 bytes
SHA-256: dc3b021ec58a9b37d8bb58f56186890728a00639285f7d4c8227ea1353908454