Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50be57decea8c0c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:12:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 703f4803531e5bccddd9c8e4f7489f6b SHA-1: 849e10fa777fa77eef6ccedb7fc051c70ec1e688 SHA-256: 50be57decea8c0c36b5eb51702c76504875acc7544ec9426518a1558c6eb9a8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or SEO poisoning attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/354225008.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/lebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65222bede1e4e43a6c11837c9871bd96/wetosugetapud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/25559866850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e1460dade---vupinezukevaxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e248d70425c---8532951195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8827e9a67cffb6ac8c4e938f9e65efbf/67922200686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khanaphatgroup.com/UserFiles/file/guvuzorivokobutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/paban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/bufubujomexizovubexolibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/51724185148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ls6f7j2bf9hisga6m50rfks5g7/xarivuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ef6ce7241---34552246815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbc8c8dff8---lowewonodugowavizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84016404015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/3929172579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/74136357283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuestag.ch/userfiles/files/nugamudidatowedarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c53d3829a9---30445470524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/toxipuvejejakudodubodekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826fd8da663---82702674741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/puvovutapomiguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccshecea.org/upload/files/69374844829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=advantages+and+disadvantages+of+business+process+outsourcing+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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e37b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE37B 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8d6891d39c9ecd03bd2c4f2b4921f87d6215d42add140dcbafb6f80fa833e6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF4 16564 bytes
SHA-256: 01847d1970232fe30206dd2f0f7420e355fb54bfb4ed25249a06fed8664c3e74
font_02_sfnt_off00012755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12755 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1