Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ec583cec001ff49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-04-26 13:47:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: ef3e10b27ef53acfc4127b4ab51ad340 SHA-1: 186b8a1823e35409dc3dc9ac210619d7da4db094 SHA-256: 5ec583cec001ff4942aeaff3c07c2e11a742ef3241b2806a4318d2e6d18b5206
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf and includes a search query for 'Dodge avenger 3.6 oil capacity', likely a lure. The numerous embedded URLs, including one pointing to 'spotlight-sites.com', suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/loboje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/23528315583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/73261430544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ralivowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/goxara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sakobonomoduriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/lipedoketuparukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/lomaxitafuvutatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/danajon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/nutuzisujobipusife.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/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=dodge+avenger+3.6+oil+capacityPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/liwubuwivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/kuwidiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/boranewibutafale.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d0f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0F5 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 04e9e67cec2e125c47939e0bdb35027e6ef1452045775e2ee54a855d73b30a84
font_01_sfnt_off0000e415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE415 10408 bytes
SHA-256: f6a85955916eb7e5b5bb809dda5c6e44688521b4872abf60fde5ec8ad6e05a89

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