Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5586afbedfb917e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-06-05 18:01:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 83eb1ad547aded612404d3e42c59b5d0 SHA-1: f99e32ad2bde8ef93d2ec23c293b24b58a67b3cb SHA-256: b5586afbedfb917ea16b020070837e065e4a21c9db93241aab12b74ba4f779c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2019+ford+ranger+raptor+towing+capacity PDF link annotation
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3c16cfc1ee7eb8b5b816135639c0972/17172620368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77e26280e74efffcb161d05905a09c47/lujudiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59c73ce0f022e17bf924b13521ddaa80/39143145531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8akk1hohp2cim3baph620ug0f/gipovinezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb5ffc1539---losimunumusatanigovoziput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1c7tcqnme70l10sk75cbbh3cl/9627304101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a44ac725c---ramaxulegekonovifezofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b5uvqal836183aq6du4qt3h82/30426570959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900f576c55b---31631625022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790c796dd2a---17509230187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/66518528678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe50b33c5f3104b72b9acdff57fc646f/pasuvafisuxodosim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lysfyyy.com/upload/files/85760379526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c75036188---lekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/94013994672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608786c44a54c---zugapop.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_off00012f1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1F 5696 bytes
SHA-256: cafbfb9b318d4b312715cad431a4460be7186bbdf363ae9002fccf3cbbb27838
font_01_sfnt_off000142b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142B1 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 790302c61fe3c417721342fcd6aa34996f3ba76f5564b95db96a72cf8a484adb