Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 526667582505ad66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-06-22 23:35:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b5fe7df61d301c83514bb708af553bb0 SHA-1: 3cb3b136113bd5d9bc4f73a4959233abe13c0997 SHA-256: 526667582505ad6632424243921885dc7bdc290f4ac5886d1e17a50fc38928dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'manual factory reset', a common pretext for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083bae08849c---bilivisedorogupisekot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/99014375362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/pokodidemejifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/pomikemaveno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4lctju42v38pq769fhpgdedhr/linejudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/39068219849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db22826b4a---makulupetasanuzapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/968a0c608fab79c2fcadd3bad142f6e9/lufugodinutobisopux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0d058df0eee48f7401e8ea69e7615bf/23952691356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3a6b966e517ffc9f869dd0887a029d2/musofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/37935939139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/japituwuwuweronu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdc58348b3b7d8427c4b7b24927b00eb/vubalerasufovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vj0jvcesv9o0hqpumf9vmm607f/56985129115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=manual+factory+resetPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5ED 4980 bytes
SHA-256: 78903fc153a16c263766c0d72d3b53a75edce8ba502562cf52650b4269e08853
font_01_sfnt_off0000e704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE704 10924 bytes
SHA-256: cb408bf6598ead79d7dfdcc35057b00a01229449d9b845e1c033c6907663d242