Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 850d47d13579ae8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-06-19 08:26:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8dd2d692cd75cb1f89ff2422fe6db984 SHA-1: bc54fb424caa72e9cbb9405c2d6539e704de9751 SHA-256: 850d47d13579ae8e2662bb9ea60bb9e4a6a4fcfb44ab9fe60d355db51003b5b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external links and the high confidence detection indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/32303666139.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9dc67331b40004aaef5d21153b64035/12495104589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bainihu.com/upfiles/editor/files/18821383331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.anandtirth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjpooce7l1bas9jkeh3ilg5tq6/nivokatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86697da9fb---vazogadanipeborolire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3848005152101499aca5ebfbf0e11bda/duvupulowigilotesepoziguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/43584904908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36b0403b91336d8cdedbed79460b4b22/49501422412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tth45k0kjh0aodkot9bk24sl67/bunijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/32634051657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d89a15564---9320234919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c496d54ff8---40002724658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bkm4etjrl3flp8hqdkqf9f4g4/rulelazefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3affb8d17dec20119bc2134003eba58e/badefezodanemoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/bimumafapozuvujafamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728a2d3064d---94247504207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=taoist+ways+to+transform+stress+into+vitalityPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCCA 5116 bytes
SHA-256: cbb50f25f6c2394b177b4438c4a76d8ecd090efd93146d3e597ab535496884ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000de35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE35 11576 bytes
SHA-256: c5370fb9e8ec25ccc2bb2db357132f187724c784117398da764f82590ceb97be