Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c50e943617ca2c63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cdcbd8d14397aecb6ce9d9a9c0c7d1ff SHA-1: 9569421d4e21e42bc8c019562c6cf817c1ef7698 SHA-256: c50e943617ca2c632b26ab622ba874dc0e2fdadc8c36033390caf3cebeaa2b0e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The PDF employs an image-only lure, typical of phishing campaigns, and contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/739ebd2065306c69ea3ae3b8b51978a1/finomolosivoziviv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52e08a3052288bc37e49abc8acbe6663/dezixokosukosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1868c238f170ed3a77165beb5a77cef0/javopulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34202f20292201d1ffef667d0bdc1300/sujarelowajizasuwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-plast.ru/foto/files/dewofumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/buvaxonefujunikakoviloxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c8b8c3e2811846ff4daef5b85523b95/togugavaxomorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/jexujukamofaxefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab88b2372ea---vixorelojefabelamuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/nexedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdbbb468f6---lozegudigakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/fugixudadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ca20a3c42ba4553e7834181bde3bdc/36439401760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liceoadultos.juniorcollege.cl/userfiles/files/27360393535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/2b34abb7851bf2a721b83eb1552ff804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/fomusinojefekujojozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcresthigh1971.com/clients/9/9f/9fbf9047a6869172a982db6f42f05a9a/File/15991420069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fad8c3f14---48114459057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/bapuzupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/vituko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truck-transport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1affcc7283e1c0ce62f8a4e05b6a31f4/sagene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-v-sochi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pemedilovurazataral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=debate+writing+format+pdfPDF 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_off0000b3bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3BD 10852 bytes
SHA-256: c327033940ff8e8929bb38a86ab7b791e6761a4d15ac7f75932c6a1f9f251bff
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC6C 14064 bytes
SHA-256: 81fec045308cee0d19ddacd73a63d98a7e3ff7222485bb9bcc409fac33c2d95c
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1