Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c50b0bee1a2ddbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 00:25:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a2140436f327aceb8b8579cef0112f34 SHA-1: 6f9009a147b29ee7cda6428c250fa6dbcb3433fc SHA-256: 9c50b0bee1a2ddbe14c4f6b934ea07413fb7c41a2957fc5d2d171fe3d1ef0446
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link farm structure is a clear indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 http://kmbb.at/userfiles/file/81915982255.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/55347364082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe71a3e9f847e10d3189cdcebe335f6/kediwulurupalizinevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0f10025d5---tufufogupivelarudiguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b21dc21141da0f599eb7f275379622b4/682875447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/wosirif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sphotobooth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc66eba18c---38260099640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/li3c0em3ljv7s94r5pif4urtgf/xilubumovefexupetitofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/21715977252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vn8ccqh6nue0qgnl701k9hd024/nukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/fowuterinodoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boxibetobumufopowibiredog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3c5c235c7a7d5f12e1f7d36d22792e3/20983834137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720211f2f9e---50117770478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bf07a2561d4a99c0995ae0ab6bc5ca5/gekada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallassymphonyleague.com/clients/1/14/14bb4a025281f1a32078cb68571f7cf3/File/33041080774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/xivudedenodusoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///43409771739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/41464052546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e273b230917b56e1bf3bf077c95f96/49521985926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45esnmg1oavqv5mu61hpqc2696/rifesuratuzupegakudilevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/vibunabonawopudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukubara.com/zdjecia/file/tugokanexixireko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4f351ebf8b---76635895419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=tonto+national+forestPDF 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://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_off000100e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E7 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 511774c25a05b458214358747fff67fe01518873e20d6e44f9102b9886724dbd
font_01_sfnt_off000117ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CA 18412 bytes
SHA-256: a5f9e013a6644168b0f742d9b80603666e13ee31293c3037f81b944af67d25bf
font_02_sfnt_off000148d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1