Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f50a1a882e2d8907…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 09:48:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4bc300684bf4195a9131571f717adb96 SHA-1: 31f95d34c5d80400d10ff36426ea67ce13d10c08 SHA-256: f50a1a882e2d8907ff6df9d83cf2c18d4c5b955924e2d7e2cadaba4f618600a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. These links likely serve to distribute further malicious content or lead users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/kujazuxeda.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca566bf5c5---fuwisugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/folabefafeporubabefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/nibogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082988348c66---54196455954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/binafavezawojegaxigidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875d0eb50826eef9217d5d8f9950cf94/42511095486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840c8b71e1f---20425310732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021628559211338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072835d9cb9e---92312301222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifo-sea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25404324047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/turowijimekevivojimabib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d68305e4fce76eefa59b7ce5ab595133/kodonibepepagafibalarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9kj026o4ig6bf88rba89slffe/pabedexiniloxegudedofuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitness-sport.it/userfiles/file/mopimopapolapib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95062a802004ffa7c56c98d653b91c51/1625631053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a5a0d3b83---dexenebezedunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f12dba4d6d68affe8a7c79ec233f2ab6/xizolakuzafejolivulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/59320154106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a637e5c97c0---28159473394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1288f34e9d5624a1d2aa25650720f60/87394573862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/14313600411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=silabus+akuntansi+keuangan+smk+kelas+xii+kurikulum+2013+revisi+2017PDF 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_off0000e1c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C0 11420 bytes
SHA-256: ab702a3c65614ff7e47aac1eb96dabbc31bbe9f44edeaa2f7e59204a21b028a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fce0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE0 16440 bytes
SHA-256: fe7714f2227de713a57914b1a9b6c439191b53e3035fc67261548b8482759b6a
font_02_sfnt_off000127b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1