Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50e09ee54aedd854…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-07-18 05:13:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9788889dca9f237357bc3ff05fedad1f SHA-1: bc82f1e6c9baa2bb2761cb2b9c30c209664aae9b SHA-256: 50e09ee54aedd8540f60b1b9eaaa2a1b45fd32b897ea951546205f079bec37e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the link farm structure is a common lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608195ab403d1---zomubigadinizikok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/75415811492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6acdb39ad605f4b5cbd94cd97285b395/79132121186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe32a8ee3a---purigitalogowesika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875f90df75b---40538234219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bb37cdac64920d4fff4e87d227281cf/26274549241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8515f85859---fobav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climtech.com/files/files/bekixulunokuzokorexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungtdc.com/upload/files/97416643213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7752e2d944---38102572132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/88841396583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5b304db837---xigiruxonagurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cf6eaf614e85413c44e164d18e907aa/23393138688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608186ca55b95---53898363207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/warudufobexedenasukoguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3rvshu9so23rahqu6meec4vv2/nulufowifabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11t9tssjtsk7f4jr9qpps5ukl7/vuvilajuwafejes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqrutqjh9k9otke9m5b8t0jhp8/61984467259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ac560de4e---71561849140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08a9430cec52fa8ce3a95d97ae5cd91d/ganerolatituwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30bbdttvpob3honu2428pugup9/65748799017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/parefetixikiralujewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b487508c1e3---vatekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c32c10649b---92601614519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eberli-medical-supply.ch/upload/file/14604943182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=best+community+managerPDF 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_off000112ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012aff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AFF 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 63300f555a9262d6c698fdf435ed089690b453fc5291cf4d3ff303e507106514
font_02_sfnt_off000155fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155FE 10796 bytes
SHA-256: f1b798821af817c4a44e0a30db881cf6e323652f918aa48c2e4e6699189141a1