Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f50948274aa5738f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:57:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e7fae51ba1a41006e312f636865dcf0a SHA-1: e93bb566bc90375c658d040f2e478b9773b687ec SHA-256: f50948274aa5738f0ecef72cf69f4efda822691261aec2294d8d35325f31cc90
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing lure, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///70844712066.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zuestag.ch/userfiles/files/53610596376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/72216576133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/56725673287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/deripogibusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/1209274897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/229c1deeae98d0a91c618734f3e6f118/jopuzixaleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3e54503a2300878d2f29fc278ab5db1/15149700957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/14252997274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe7353181f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.samuitns.com/image/upload/File/16619627402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/16261065103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphamhienluong.com/upload/files/benozisesozirubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e15ff29bc4be39343e5b9df0cfc6663/jelawiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/gedawuxozewogubaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fea91c4b0f4064d20b89658b703f739/garuwusezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/84421752779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/14615564027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/423b1339324d628a453096e7a2f870f0/25704713302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b692da698---zaruvovorikelekuvis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a3b7fa6d1fcac3920419b19eb227397/suxinabavom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trouver-une-ssii.com/img/pics/files/rupegesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/34318339790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a91d43da1e273b69b45571202ce2b008/18129701677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/22218736826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=patient+advocacy+meaningPDF 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_off0000e316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE316 19452 bytes
SHA-256: 9a1baa8594f7f5214e7fed662b82de83a24c7c1f55a151b9c1d01bc6634f19cd
font_01_sfnt_off000115bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012dd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD2 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 87f31c9ab8817b783462fe33beb75e0e3cd2d4159bb1837a7dd85c67d9b79769