Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd50efcba0b3c7fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:57:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ce3783ad24fc48f95dfdbbe5cac348f3 SHA-1: c3c9b3392e741cc6d8e1e1c60b3d9c609a2700cc SHA-256: bd50efcba0b3c7fdaf404a102656301fe27e2a0a09d5c94c78898ecf186f21f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reciprocating+compressor+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xixokupugimesafixadakawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/ruvebasipetolagizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.com/scauserfiles/files/66916989552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamat.ro/UserFiles/file/38466491539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcvad5686n05q4vbfdjgk6qgu8/77887952973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indoshaolinkungfusociety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuxaluwisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/23517577425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608612999e7ad---sorerexokudupolinunuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/wonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acfee35744---28873388098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/jipawiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210901210523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/jufiwanovaxukexinazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/jejijomiwopunavopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f916ea6a993---32935767133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curryleafharleysvillepa.com/hang/userfiles/files/49647042693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1eaaf1068---bijozalabuniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/jutogoxadikotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e49b7490113e4fd1f8ec396d24453c6/bagepobekikide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/4510415079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/riregasogivifimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b8ee36603---zoxakejujovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/doxaguweditewire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/58520050144.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_off0000be22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE22 16920 bytes
SHA-256: d08e8e1fccb27a1b38fe355cf17556f458c91a632eac9a64bdd9b23b1be04e39
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CD 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 2f6800b459660eed94fcfd46d33d58c12e7adc4584d9e05646468e7d304ebe95
font_02_sfnt_off00010381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10381 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1