Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0033cd6352845962…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:21:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 398c831164bef3ee5066128492f2b042 SHA-1: c03e25f6fe4fc61d470ee2c5d45efec6d4590468 SHA-256: 0033cd6352845962c8eedf34743c1778a77b62ff3495f051435aa0c26651f83f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The presence of multiple external URIs and the classification as a phishing trojan suggest an intent to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clomid+and+progesterone PDF link annotation
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/30351154919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3c9d63677d70d5f750c47b8e467dbba/21928232107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4135051155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cb2321e8fc330f44b5f14f3c51cac63/20217322197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f51aa73468---kejalesujusulere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/nejesuzudasifamixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9585dd32b---12511856187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96db491679---borotamalajipifaxunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/mukixofotugelevof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uupeklf43hiih1djh5p36invc6/66416608721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfurtl9lnhudgqiq4qbhdotfl0/xekukazogovalexemexuvumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oskdfmp0si4i3mk9vd0fj96h43/matinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa115fe1b4059cccdd68e01d912f9280/depok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb3b88a4f7---fabovubedefexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc561787950---motowaxemasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/sarojinujido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqp45nf94sfedjitmg5ju9gt6t/39619919240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/4593922632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/nuvikaxibuturirimazuvifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc0070b4ea---61849688985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14111d6d53834597debec0a90cfd2888/zimofifagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7256725e40---31114339984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b073c6e77---ronifemozuwuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a802106091b---21290453682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607179c261099---jaturarajub.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_off0000f480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF480 18204 bytes
SHA-256: 72bcc2570e33a0eec5de6b27133e7ed1a770c2ddd8bccc3e0deecd5eae173957
font_01_sfnt_off00012226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12226 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A3D 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 6b6cbb14b0bbca236fff2dad79a74eba60afde07160ae823e7b6e8e4820ca3d3