Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e50a92e1a2ca9a78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:24:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 596adaacb481c48b1ef46957a6819cad SHA-1: 94c35f2109a466524f20de85ad6c558a5b615bc9 SHA-256: e50a92e1a2ca9a78b8f821fbfe0a953443682321ef050b275996a521d8b39b53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a common tactic of using link farms within documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://singhaniabrothersltd.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedolaremakivi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zivunozelurowanedazawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--xhq021fvrwdth.com/d/files/funew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosrem.org.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/felumigipojikadiwovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210829_11B97F2E3BA580D0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quartierdete.fr/uploads/fckeditor/file/99082569322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/8349879025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/6068636148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e419ecdf8a1---9467617848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/bupofutorepafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/zutuwibamotujuzovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzion-u-zamku.cz/files/file/86487124646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210708025533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nf53a8bnb8ouvfa5k4mlg22vk8/12503513278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r03vk9a9k1ksk45emgptvde697/43823967886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upservice.expert/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mirijodorazutupiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb15bd2dba6b553de64e713146be1d45/89702841513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161262b9ceaf4e---dagazugibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/wolilefepufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/36761992338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihu0mnukh6o32rejvtrf89dgk4/todinuxozijizuwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+entrepreneurial+finance+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_off0000d5a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A1 10496 bytes
SHA-256: ccef5e532576389dcc65b4b615957bd138d81caab9a5c77c6c4d425034b612aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED89 17924 bytes
SHA-256: dc772c1c63f02b01554fc3ee838107bab8f8e96b50a0cc5e6143bd74e8642ee4
font_02_sfnt_off00011c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1