Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db50d3b4394b9a02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-08-09 03:38:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b94f31c5a714a8204930938569da0470 SHA-1: 87b384ae0caff356b1868fe0a89780bce500e8be SHA-256: db50d3b4394b9a028e26ee60b16f92a793dc668b923fa8a09463c3ebd00444a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on disposable or compromised domains, indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9896

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=how+to+apply+textures+in+blender+2.7x+%28beginners%29 PDF link annotation
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105bfbc9356e---miwokugotazarodojafamexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/37230724623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/53208319394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/97570982325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/minitamevoravo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxbrio.kr/files/files/jurolovebexifovobegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/banikegorol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e9ed3b1b753c66918dfee7a6c66900/97681572636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/95328941172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/21725719976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/62105656034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24tdtpll2l8uuep59dt500rp2b/31957183778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092379c36461---wagajuripominaposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40ae1e426a80b690b6f79d6b41b564b6/37604280140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/darelawuwonula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1369c2aeb7---menovonodupofovakenage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af14017bdb---koxejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3vmapr5eioiefgup2vt9mqobi/pixokuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3aa6c84438643c063206e0182ca31c/bafojugaguwolenapijuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7be98111f9---44409866761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eeac78ced---babasukubudekezibafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/gabelaxiluposunetewixolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mylin.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazepona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/dumowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exima.kr/userData/board/file/89896554575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/zupeka.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_off000111b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B8 18136 bytes
SHA-256: 0c4462e6526c0fabc0eae104ea9e6b99a68828c72e4ee477586819010337c53d
font_01_sfnt_off00014142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14142 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15959 11492 bytes
SHA-256: 4f1be0143f6ae8d45aab5885b1a50e0669216ffe329352adebad2cf1983c0bd6