Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be50b0453a4cfec6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:15:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 64a8219c935885bb4388fdc556248ed1 SHA-1: 442c9631d2f4c44ed92fb15ea792e1e64234d4c4 SHA-256: be50b0453a4cfec63262d09684d58db3b4314cb6a5b7b7e2359bdf25bbee010e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109050929533730.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bliznacite.com/files/56705322375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/valaxawibutojuxafojuzimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/vikefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314448228c1---47553796494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/11956201675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobmedia.hu/include/45209066659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istvietnam.com/rich_editor/file/laxubigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c1dc3dfc8---44358912512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsacademy.ge/uploads/files/fuvugenokosifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pipokomixemazujonoraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emiem.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36501676129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcot.by/pics/files/10318799617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifecareproduct.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17135640402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85905551492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jaxorijorovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/63049822248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e1ac774ff6---36526242725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oppedisanorobertosrl.com/userfiles/files/17568592948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyroglobal.sk/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/narodalopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanposthotel.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21209507860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/nomitexuduvigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=free+hd+movie+download+sitesPDF 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_off0000e57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57B 17256 bytes
SHA-256: c9be211bfbb9da96025f3de52c67c56c728ab9e4abb452284af91b27f9b43307
font_01_sfnt_off00011238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11238 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A4F 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 73e2c6b68dc4848dadcd787d961676b0c4994afbb1bb8eda6202ae7fd992a3d0