Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f50f27ac6c46deac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 21:12:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 62f7105c96c2b4d216dc8b69e4420125 SHA-1: b2d9bed5e5fe60535f20267c934efa55ec4fdadd SHA-256: f50f27ac6c46deac888e3987df86f222c639306ecbad2e6ab06da453b132f419
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites and a heuristic firing indicates it is a link farm designed to trick users. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection confirms the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=recover+unsaved+documents+mac PDF link annotation
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1621855636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20a5dae6959a3665791e600404197339/34062409206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51d3554eca9f6e19db100d6881774363/zigilawenoripaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/1622178224978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83dcf34386982a3abf4259ee24318f69/15347117413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84e0f54f38da05a087507f12be4b6cae/29401660692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6db12d72f---sukadevepilipowapebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608303bf66f31---32445800747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec67d8404e62152b6912e687281fa5b1/92822667842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/21174919203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607613aea8493---17844405921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/512dffe415bd32316a3f8faef9fa88d7/xoxurazibupuwalenorenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3afb4c97e3---49567035947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/554598e6069fa3ded5e92c2ee9f118e9/ludemurotoraxovokuvofub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/nazirud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f6504e5de74e4fd9175664476088037/fafefokonupuxanatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b753aa1122f---55523974187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murtenhof.ch/userfiles/files/kukurogirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758954cd8ca---46959576468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d72107e5bc1---58301112441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11c834e1b4aed9fa66a599f152aa1443/79077944304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c9af9b6818eda72e067bdb3761c557/bokofiwuxugilununof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/23489118147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db962dc6e3---17455159467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5bafa2f76---86546236608.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_off0000f195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF195 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 64b3c5a78f3b268025593f06b23c448d7549dd0827dc62e93140d69f711c9918
font_01_sfnt_off000109e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F3 17572 bytes
SHA-256: c4e85f475e1395b3e02e2c449523da49411f6ab9f2023fa44897f5387ac38927