Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50e4051628f72b6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:50:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7fdbb0e39111354390bdbfdabb7eea65 SHA-1: 940cafae18f51b908ad8d2389d93d41320121fbe SHA-256: 50e4051628f72b6b9643ad48ca4ac9e192a21f362601aec471db50da4300e5bf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The file is a PDF containing a link farm pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam context. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malicious content or engaging in a scam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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 http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e36a5b4687---59825880847.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2e038d405---54292850171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boeschfamilytravels.com/clients/43210/File/24876416524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d57b60db4---penamifonomajawakoxuzile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/fepiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/84110131753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74077idk7arm7tub10hlvk6hlg/76969676154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7paejov9aoga8pjako13k1r8kt/xiwijuronuwerofapagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/xipitulajidaxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/60429634059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79c769f29b6839536016d54c87b6bc88/nujefabujewujoritorixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/mudozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160868d2097423---xofoxomudebemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97112671546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83b228ad78665219332aae8239f9c7df/lovozivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/81876159795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0965818789.com/CKEdit/upload/files/81124589963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cadafb5314---92832727927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210719022428_ohx6xj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingtesttips.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/25159594385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed2493b7ffa---mezomisutuwuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qa6ugi7vjv654cma254e1mrc3/89663486282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecpa.fr/uploaded/file/52657105913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/63107608383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=different+types+of+electromagnetic+waves+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_off000142c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142C1 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 01b42952f7808afdabf55e051eebb95ea43588dd608ce59f11d6147100b9470e
font_01_sfnt_off00015cf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CF3 20856 bytes
SHA-256: 049cc2ca42c988fabccd941c331a58aa6d1de09ffd585b75560a1cd9dc8391a7
font_02_sfnt_off0001934c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1934C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1