Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a50551ba470d8ee1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-07-10 10:11:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4552536e6fb481b5330eda046ce4ad45 SHA-1: 36a73716f19bff98c3f3aa56476e0275809a96e5 SHA-256: a50551ba470d8ee17588ee40b517990e1c6a13cddee0c38beded5451947cc65f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates an attempt to direct users to malicious or compromised web content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728b07dff1b---nigojenanomoxudekekizitu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/zetuvubukolezukojapanebuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16089b25b9aee6---3162242122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3cf857793---6387943845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hnhaa.com/userfiles/tnejp//files/timixubowilizumipedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/wisipebafiburadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/dozezaziligufego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d8fd23370---75731327498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springbook.no/files/56380272601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mt3vnvcs1n6c65ot2314p09jc2/76554501968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/88382458791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c96edf7e2562804626a724af9972580d/kofaguxiwumuvuxevemafiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5692de571---72668206690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/wixidizixigibaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e62c837b6f---sixidowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ub5e7r5ml92c1vs88a50dot13/zadogaduxexubepojegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/7826392739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/45219051773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746f8b46374---nogorite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/69463630126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cee679a547da4adac5eb955f6454c41b/96672214737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764e2ec1883---94442669843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aecd56175a31aac202ba6a23b03396f/80655126346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/19512370136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=volume+of+solid+of+revolution+examplesPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed613bb21259ecf65595983cb4cce04c/milepomizisesipijanokiwi.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_off0000d183.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD183 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 18e49189a2a7a9d7fa21de0b11dd44e8ed6ae6c2a0352bb735b61154f0cdf10d
font_01_sfnt_off00010131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10131 10896 bytes
SHA-256: bee49f7bad6b62a3914db874e533bdd27d32b9ed4ee91e561c5e3cca5eddb2dd
font_02_sfnt_off00011a71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1