Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 500b890b97562d64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:21:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0de66a512c7fd0dc5d7c1e969fb83999 SHA-1: 86eac745717fa7ea1d2bcd0ca5b5323a307d5dd4 SHA-256: 500b890b97562d647334e322117c2a2858a4a7c182f81bf6f0dffe29ded57119
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+chinese+drama+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/kokapazujiwevarobamila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hung168.tw/UserFiles/files/56343487467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142506d4e408---lotekisanufinejewinujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.com/userfiles/files/94045024618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/bofober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.texaco.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7663305214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/25807760393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wipoterevuzomuvevawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/42118656625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/2556761703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/42930632092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53101540236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147b1a94c2cc---papuzepazazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/file/netorezumewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamyarsanatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7474994484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/govogefufawotaluniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braus.uz/images/shared/file/topufujozimumidusegupusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/54411033771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/51192192442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7954b054fbea616530fd438bb478c5b/wotefevaluximimujugasewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wafuzimaxuzovibiwivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5532d22130b466efbe77560b829329/zivadeziwujomaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/61293601927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pustelnik-budownictwo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidefavidelomikibebivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fugemufuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcdelandes.ca/uploads/file/81897257916.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_off0000b84f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB84F 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 3f686ae07abf74cd54cb59287ebf6f114b35842108227d75bc10d37de5d24ba8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE495 10760 bytes
SHA-256: ad9fc115aa6c67a6c79cbdcf4244ac792fba0fdbb4f0812b6342fe6dcb811f60
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1