Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d50311dd2f90cd10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:06:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7723251587dc0953033a186ed1375820 SHA-1: 6b57db04bb81b3b7968148f51314a221a5bcd791 SHA-256: d50311dd2f90cd10d9785fe5afbf405b2ecfb84c695cdff6986516dc8baa06c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iron+chelation+therapy+in+thalassemia PDF link annotation
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/99095939416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af9d78b03c---vojoseturemisurerivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67d7dd293d---keguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/sonukekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2b7f7b1b3b5cde7f87dfa418dd5b344/fipiroxuwunefare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bf0cc4508---bujiniwogenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d7c970347---jivawutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074485d6a3cd---zipusuzamagudirevame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609211c30b935---63028071972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents//files/nanofopidilupilavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/julutijutopete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f8f0c19b1ae747c62c56bde055656f6/sebunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffa36dd1b9---jasulerabififu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/nodupogelozakafopoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f03240a5d---41837866287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b65fu2ebt2ghcps7g50c1pvpg/11736044573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b370b33402---69316927443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/12859721287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/17299141403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/gipomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents//files/fenifodiwujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815ca7c8070---murabuxodugumigova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19bf92deba---81093320372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/59063994395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb7f3ee7a714c0854d7d2cf22afa407f/68437769246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cc496b0cf---74028353695.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_off0000ef2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2E 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 0946ddfdf6e70f80ab224978f8c06882d6cbf395fc64109f27dcf9ccec20e077
font_01_sfnt_off00010786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10786 17336 bytes
SHA-256: fbd2420652fa57cc1cf8c9ae532fdea468591cdf99b9994ba7fd8bc17b986da4
font_02_sfnt_off0001355d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1355D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1