Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5be0b9c9757e6c75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.0 KB Created: 2021-06-18 08:14:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8f7e4de6e8c4b2cc3200dd080539ade5 SHA-1: 75eefe10e2bcd957abeb32b40a390721495f7787 SHA-256: 5be0b9c9757e6c75af36bb87bfc589d3ddd9783500fa5594d01e209afd6d3da7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing distribution mechanism. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for distributing further malware or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the overall heuristic profile points to a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=igcse+coordinated+science+textbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba1f7dcd164056fb6af3f9235bc9784/62630604061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabf1542eb6---bijogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/kamatevireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830c47a25c8---63334887235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0dee8920a---28635451591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t99pgjg01io65v3qtlcv5d74g5/nuwevegatimujazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccee2a9769---tikarebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/ririregiseneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/wexozerap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ebe81df7e---zuborokogezukarukena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f47d7c2db8---bonunemupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/nikaregilibule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbdce9307d2d1036df5de31be9fe8c0a/19573658560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pl3q43ecs6in6jir3r3bitao0/soxodelovololunabesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078156b2df80---60827885137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc159bca36---15827159177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca276ff457daccf878e86afcb89c8be7/65506644307.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_off0000b4f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4F3 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 29591b2134b773a5a92528e86c9d790cf9b683c1c442ae0ad6b21d69401d6f2f
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C2 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 30e3b15b6832a49f091222fa8549932bba7ceaafa8a5caf3c4e929b26a08be86