Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea50d4cc2a614003…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:30:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9c7e1520cc03fd91588c43a7a071fed8 SHA-1: 16686d0ac0ae1d5b83ce5d048d917ea2fca22981 SHA-256: ea50d4cc2a614003442f54b4fd254791be39781b00d9d20eb69beb76ce1f71e4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, potentially to download further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic suggest a phishing or social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/86973076030.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/gevogudogopoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luteloderanoxemaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parvazyab.net/basefile/api203/files/nezafexigobofobavara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akifkasaboglu.com/esatfisek/images_upload/files/16525403197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/1420709626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925ae7dcec6---xevidafuvanixupude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8da870d0269625cc6a3eb32f80e296fb/61892459940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d25c665de829f3ae67958a344a94baa/rinakojevuzamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wavimorijofufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkykinhdoanhkiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/vuwamefagosobukukuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd72537017---95995100961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae46d2d1331d96a3f30c8bc1f71a3dd/woxinukegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nm97c77sudslsljbb542kn98e/gifareketogoxunugapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/xivigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/7812443290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sshs1962.info/clients/3/33/33dcd814b32da85629335a95ab3d0158/File/sumewoxikafezazutole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3ddd7d9b1---94194892896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c7e3bae91---liluzibusuwezoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumufilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fadm9pre165j0ni0fos4nm21b2/19720459642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ae548759a876d1bd80e8a35aecb536/31362155084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/votefezavotorikijujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=best+pdf+to+word+document+converter+onlinePDF 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_off0000c163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC163 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d97a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD97A 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 623d2dd2754025cb90558b72a72edc2760045e2e6020849087e27227f4c65910
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D9 16936 bytes
SHA-256: 740aa3f97fa61df033e1738cbe4e22a2546591648796dcd19022adc041856683