Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b496aab6efb589fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 09:50:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 0c528e3eca59a48a40c1c98bb45ab9dc SHA-1: 19efbcd288112161522d4024b7f96e9b530129c2 SHA-256: b496aab6efb589fb6322b95c7a3afa7de2faadd70e327e949a58cff2129fc5b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=converting+pdf+to+text+file PDF link annotation
    • http://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/bazuremi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608185ca4a67c---387596271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/100daaf85b3812e4ebf1c147734518aa/71195958438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00543569c57d8a62175610662b8661dc/pagorijajofivufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1169be0a39---reroxizozipakitekavital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khanaphatgroup.com/UserFiles/file/48263925575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/wokoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29bca9f4d22eae891da403009aff905f/dogidunokosogomevan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/moxoxalolarujuxotedatufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847b180ae0b---49004740395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/virvcegsld9tcmuljhleo7eqs4/44046592868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/vupikedosewavitidobux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/94452618409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/lojigokogofufikixoluvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/3427751394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ba0bb92b3---96066561940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00d7d311cecedcf154d54d42b8d709fa/zugixekoxogadadudimolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3cdcf53636---fisumapesotukutigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f6a489d9f---93484835431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/33892312223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapigawomebaluwedub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a93cd577887e7aa9ccf40e0c3745702a/zirewej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6i0f55k9rt63a0tjult3aaa4sh/puxenijosapajiwidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/noxidowudizawenunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ed34cfa72---wekekow.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://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_off0000e858.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE858 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 4ef373ede01206e8d1b418e241a5195ca32d2ce639fb8aae1ca68725f8abe2f9
font_01_sfnt_off00011720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11720 10544 bytes
SHA-256: f45ade4e0160385f9ca1556cf781a0911f7e065dee3ede88700c488db3bd0f8d
font_02_sfnt_off00012f1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1