Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50e4fb8898c6ee27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:37:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: d79f690fd1822535cae8a7bb6211df57 SHA-1: 2b35fc2fed463e0fc95f3847e18444f04996f2f6 SHA-256: 50e4fb8898c6ee2788c744d4cf177df201cda656eeb01aaf69211b3418f14546
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, including links to compromised WordPress sites and a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a download button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xvideostudio+video+editor+apk+2020+brazil PDF link annotation
    • http://vodova51-53.cz/files/9709769649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/sixeliramexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/falupizupebewelomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1qbd2ck1682rlb2di4ichat87/sitovamilekawelelidafal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yaofangpeixun.com/upload/files/nekodemitilisokawunileso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/perabixoxomerip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/bibinelizuxifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210913114820198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/sisesevoxujuxoterutinipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsfly.com/uploads/files/17206712863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoquynhhuong.com/upload/files/73835126839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/91236236976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup2.com/contents/files/deregokuvenabuzagekefoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/50516071852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/6013670001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashokarefrigeration.com/userfiles/file/74845980172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613912a389c64---jovej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/36295407081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f68a94f39---23666674187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/79107725242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/96410818474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babonepuworonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fibertech1.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5170405306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratorioshamalab.com/userfiles/file/wafufowuroxu.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_off0000c60c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC60C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1E 17752 bytes
SHA-256: a677bb82e6bf6229d079515b4cf2287d952c1504c967f87a31203d1c4c4cf540
font_02_sfnt_off00010c25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C25 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 6bb9a6ee5bcb419c699418f3fb4c6581b49fd50b703f6ea2fddcef12e8287864