Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50cd2727a42f806b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-17 00:12:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a4ea734e6e503ccfbbff9674070f5a4f SHA-1: 99aec634ef0a923ecceddee0ca8a7471f435ba4d SHA-256: 50cd2727a42f806ba9736288775f50e66ff29dbd60197e0ef7201646e69b67f4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDFs hosted on compromised CMS uploads is a clear indicator of a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4f51f3e24---nomidunatetaxisijowowusew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5799d018c7668b244c2fcaeb9fc0235a/94385903498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6858t1k08v4qd61gtn5rv3inm7/lovuxosaburitunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beacf58d82679acb0ab35fb3742e7a1c/zufitoxarolodijilazidafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989943d8629---20722757913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcef37b09f993e4a08cf1573aa9559f6/tixunuwojibabaximevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/gejaxivatetagenejopibexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ecc4eb4d9---jebobotirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/lipilutawipuzixikuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-leasing-management.com/uf/file/dagovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/vowujulibiganubevurupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/sonabawitumadazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec61f2e096---89747706418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/xiforefifalozere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/12262872275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44c8nco2vm49pe0jvugffh35jg/73349525772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6555946807---84353006267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c853b16272---24429785945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ut458cr2tgo7n9ojutkfaep3ju/58751743257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae91888954a---zavinuxakebujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsseith4gu1kfnj2cfl9s812q0/febigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f36cf9537805618930f87d19d8fe7cce/gosisaposilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+open+all+pdf+pages+in+illustratorPDF 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_off0000ed7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001058c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058C 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 872cbea6faae7636e720b1e19c26cbae3fa7fa4bc0ac1f4a0a16708455f02944
font_02_sfnt_off000131b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B5 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 9b247fe7bc7bf60b7ce7ae6c009fb68f82855f1fa8ac232395c6a09ab3957ec1