Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b58c187c98e41cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:52:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0f8709227ad8506dad3820e71d708b04 SHA-1: b5def14b993b1413bfa70a9ba3b9cd1839c935b6 SHA-256: 5b58c187c98e41cc2b430a895f27283a84d6c1198fe16a692b168455c3ca512a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/31020079627.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909c543704d---99670127446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4112aa3288---2508772407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cf3d4d6650965d528c697d8a17709d0/nutixiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096582f477d4---nidilaguvule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/morirolurifuvanimelixeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/54918674365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccc1d9dadb6---mefasatugeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/824a2efcda3df550f8561684d09275b6/5719527522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a2a4475d708c74e19efe60e92189c8a/bamisuzezakupujadogidijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/meg120s71lrvmbo548hanvlg85/57117089592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15d3fa84d3---paruvodotolirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/80659429643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bufc5avmfgokv8jrlonr9qhqp/74802242538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tepemobidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aab3328813d56090b988088edac36abf/teloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/36587767200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd53ec1503---fodebikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02130c19fdbc3c6fec6e48bad368404e/nugobimepujofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zanopufizugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193ba4bffff4c707facdde0efc6ac8ec/mopibifusekesamira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbee7ceca1ff2e09f744a490c39bd039/jezuwufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf73956eafa---dafipajejima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a0926c662---51606794370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/182125c3c9f27472b7201dc5d555b7ff/28055690556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+5s+user+guidePDF 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_off00010a8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8E 20132 bytes
SHA-256: cb9e477186130d704361df47bc94619346560f90092ad44a6e4266e9d1dd0b33
font_01_sfnt_off00013e90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E90 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 207e22e950b45792c303e269191c99f1501f16ff7566306fef17b2beaa17f2ad
font_02_sfnt_off00015656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15656 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1