Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d50d7f63961a8b02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-10-06 04:47:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f031ac61ced006b3d8060769586aba16 SHA-1: 4909a988dea3560e2de6268f7a9f0c0c65d25b77 SHA-256: d50d7f63961a8b028a1b938203e98b35d56806f0afb6cec1f0887b1a59db74eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a large number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the nature of the URLs and the detection heuristics strongly suggest a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=luther+leads+the+reformation+worksheet
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/50117956324.pdf
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/dimukenexi.pdf
    • http://myphamhelios.vn/luutru/files/fogizojogifemazafofu.pdf
    • http://pedraferro.com/files/files/48105551478.pdf
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2osievpnb4ho5n9p6if7aoe5p/wevivupaviromadolovidasu.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu8r3upkhm0sj9buklb17roi71/17800109441.pdf
    • http://test-immo.com/file/kasopazebebolipefos.pdf
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/wakabebanapesabipo.pdf
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/kamivewebabutoni.pdf
    • http://carbonelite.ru/file/2692774206.pdf
    • https://lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/domijilolaz.pdf
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/35302767209.pdf
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/sukamogifuwuritoged.pdf
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143326b1c07c---nalilerawopidivagitufego.pdf
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/muzobi.pdf
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/wuwimigujujubivebotikevu.pdf
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/18834687308.pdf
    • https://spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoluneximuvitakusa.pdf
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615cef5a634c5---91467714078.pdf
    • https://cnn-logistics.com/asset/files/56677509714.pdf
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/38770945379.pdf
    • http://abyss.sk/userfiles/file/gibanazipoxini.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd99.bin
382905a2a3ff28a6839c83d8511c95154d4a9aca9b5c3edbf571371b88f9981b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD99 18044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec8c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000104a3.bin
2c76cfcb12476029c017425db165065e0d646e4eb933a9f3bcda0b583b50d4b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A3 10852 bytes