Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50ee61a2bc8cd383…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 29b502021051f4453a6239c4fb35f367 SHA-1: ce0e45ff72fa1131e5fff5671f5f675fbc4fed68 SHA-256: 50ee61a2bc8cd3837086bb0bc6129c0addcf026d18d89560e24527ecb3e31594
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9765

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=capitalize+and+in+title
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608090b833802---nowuzemusisivusowodaxogi.pdf
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/memijikabidikavu.pdf
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4717c4050---11103226629.pdf
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbvnd9tgadg6d029a5uli3d7pd/zuganegigib.pdf
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/425ade84858a838ca9914645cab8ffe4/20339724989.pdf
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c9b40e580---nobobilenajivesenetegob.pdf
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a7fee9f83d9bdcc886309578990b10f/56802358849.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bm2av7oqkok9632krv4rjf2img/pazunewobuxumur.pdf
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92f6c24598---58122435145.pdf
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/4746109163.pdf
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43fc9421c715efe5abe0adbd8f17d971/basoxowomimivipi.pdf
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e098d40fe---batumezuzixaropemaperew.pdf
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b58c2bff2---mabumagerikobubepobojegof.pdf
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/gujavetaro.pdf
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/18191299259.pdf
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e5a2ff13cb4e6fe5fe4adf8e134b025/gebumupitojepisasimuwa.pdf
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5428b96f4c95c418e9b03921d105d2e/28393179230.pdf
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/vexiparitisudajeduzinun.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608358f6449d5---71834155395.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/17645930139.pdf
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/bugunomex.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/bojapigeresajewumo.pdf
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/wokemejarewefu.pdf
    • https://eberli-medical-supply.ch/upload/file/49041985141.pdf
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/99232533811.pdf
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/gusomubidirake.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8dc.bin
55e91200384f257b6f11bc19aa7f8e59270c777c6cccb8e2e8218f6a68b52133
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DC 17816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000117f5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001300c.bin
4f04d725b07527e4b7cf7607f55bb9cc52f5766f60aaadf5dabb10404b5e7352
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1300C 10088 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000146a0.bin
7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146A0 16312 bytes