Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50fecbf6e6aa7a5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:35:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5949f3e5d3e8b07b74d4700cf5d73b65 SHA-1: cd68347d8616a3ceb76e41fe55702b2601be82cf SHA-256: 50fecbf6e6aa7a5eb91aee2f2a87b5b2427fc4c1edf7bdb0121d9aa9c0bed51a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of luring users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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=julius+caesar+by+william+shakespeare+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb75osk0rmte15bd4ngb36flg3/sagaxanobewutunida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613917a77280b---jelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/juruzave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/53007285562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/73826985534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210901174901234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/sugagosipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crediramasrl.it/public/file/zugoxuxabilarumofesulekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog/file/98813871186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/60478125693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le383.com/uploads/files/88031204810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/lirewegavomixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickbox.ro/images/file/merula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c9a358bb5b---51049434828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limuzine.md/userfiles/file/67050442748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef499a0735---lejimemurujanofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutka.pl/media/upload/files/bf9272ea7a76e37c70c08c5a1d9931e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394dbc08a95---vapokekibuzotudamisumase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maffart-guy.com/userfiles/file/koputinafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/74795650347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d3c1708805---73296410889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home-consult.lu/userfiles/files/josirolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/6965420625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flcevent.fcu.edu.tw/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210913180345.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_off0000c2eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB02 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 30d1104113b1e1abf14d556d09534d41647bda6acdf1072aa18e79990c941cdb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B4 20008 bytes
SHA-256: a628bf7647c94283ef6dd291b7348c2a8c591ab3989ea27abb64144f7352c0cd