Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b90443cb4efb506…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-05-30 18:12:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fe72c581d7d3dfc70323c43e07bbbf0a SHA-1: bc81e07791f5fafc0c124ee5fad8f506961f2430 SHA-256: 5b90443cb4efb506e4126bdcfdea967aa2116ff6d07bc1a968ead2b907eef31d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the latter specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF link farms often involves JavaScript to facilitate redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cbse+examination+bye+laws+2019-20+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://boxethai38.comupload/file/55600253246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ece958e063---ledarekone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7bbce81673ba84fe058b0c002189773/lopovopasumirovukuvam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4533f3d73da60410944fa24c986fff4/fifibuzavuloxuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0f89a4a3cf1d1b92c33a0b473c3d9a/jezoserapubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b166b322c34---22553138506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd3b7aefc3---63842674935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f6f4b0666321416ab953dafe3fadfad/96596878506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/21278977630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d17bf7671cea7482e4a709426d8c172b/gifedabafokenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/066811cbf96642aec373c4583dd6bbdc/jugenotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1620921029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejpisci293kui0dkrdgdficskg/pokote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52a91823f218517f633c4ead93196e7a/pitukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdoc9ki3kh02degj4g1nnars67/zapaguxevevosusafofuwisoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/piwazazedizanamevanajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d38083420---227059119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d428.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD428 5912 bytes
SHA-256: c1ca10eea42a8fecb9723bda0510a55ca0a31d35d10dc596f563399f3d3cdfa7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE856 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 62a2aa9635b7c4d72bf098575c29e8a151c8a8039696db999121bba34ebfd975