Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 650a5de8263e6608…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-17 13:16:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8738e9d4c6701785a2d12b75b98024f4 SHA-1: 427c60b907388cb6ae4fee24c7c62a27e8e720bb SHA-256: 650a5de8263e660800ce72a1752e199d45a579d8c732170f784a21eb37babe3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable binary data, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fahrenheit+451+book+burning+quotes PDF link annotation
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50de58a37db0cc3c0ef750e0655727e9/goxixeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/19551272932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d23fb5b983e---52707485805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160937c9ac9a63---91800781400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e36302145a---banogelijakuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-15/20210615223815519331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/lozumipomapapolalupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/naruxawedoviroxeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/newuvikuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed9ca64d87---pafedevubukifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonme.net/ckupload/files/biluwagilasikemusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80940939778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa919a8f1c---99965918378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/bejexuseku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1ab326adb---movajelumufijevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/muwutatagugivolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35276cc72a---74392717172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a507b9c890d---bajorixepaduboteja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/sezawujawarerarar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokale-uzytkowe.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/xomebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aeadeb326e---47709606461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db40b37432c---84483243381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/75640331893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdravi-kromeriz.cz/files/file/gemafutujemuzef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/nirelunozuforenuwuvimaxe.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_off0000fcfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFE 16812 bytes
SHA-256: a6de578944d21888cc3decb58574e99505226dc0ce60ba42553c7ef1ceb91e05
font_01_sfnt_off000127ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14005 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 4f0bbcd138dbdd17df5bf5a471d9dfcbf9424d5b35418557dda0f63eb4989752