Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50bc58e5892e0426…

MALICIOUS

PDF

153.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 14:16:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c5bd7172b441af5f8d9adb9ec6f2ea8d SHA-1: c2d58b35f434d3ba7e69a05c84d995fd59782c2b SHA-256: 50bc58e5892e0426cc0e1df14f93234b5f0d247b389655c0d6667d786f5beeb3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs point towards a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nicest+castles+in+the+world PDF link annotation
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56c984e757---79053050312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/69058516384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210627190437155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia1973reunion.com/clients/3/33/33cb7023d77084166ed027ca16b579b7/File/9230573430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089dd21baa05---58765986693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j34d8dspgdvo715e6ohlmpaaic/30344681879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/3480779051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/kamalopetekekulafozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9r7339e317fo7m86b8d47q6nf/voxifokokosatoguvevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608059e813ce0---90048486784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94fc3af0c8---vifozevafefibasulex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e70e050b4---zubepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/rikonuzabesizuvonusanoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/logepibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80ae40aecd30f6b6a65ba7cbcd446d7d/dinodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8741d2443a---52809405980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicoral.com/img/userfiles/files/84094347632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ccb167b98---74879456499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.com/uploads/files/4176820543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bds650mh7b2rkpsgmqk08i39f7/54402744701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f325ddfad66059a6af92870117950823/medisozife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfcad11e3a7---36482302507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/37882393467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/wilebevinowaloruzanezet.pdfIn 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://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_off0001f3b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F3B6 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 469865de727020314e85a4b271365017bb386df76e88962061090406eb7f5fc2
font_01_sfnt_off00020bb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20BB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000223c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x223C5 19864 bytes
SHA-256: 49514b4781ea522bf0ee565d4cff506beaf01d2ccb05858d2349458cbb2f1062