Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 033844f05ba702a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:19:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ca90b7d5b0f35c004c4a449e42d04b14 SHA-1: bd41e52b3cbea5b82f7fa8a820a594ed1aa12827 SHA-256: 033844f05ba702a7ec9ec58732ca6551923b2a4af09971c850f99e2f7e8db00b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The primary goal appears to be directing users to malicious or manipulated websites, likely for phishing or SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://desushibar.com/userfiles/file/77966269605.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0d65db594b2d2005f6e3ff9c08fac71/37130541628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/wisireseful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d12ac20a5a689e3c3709c36994426be9/mifuxunoweveneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f61ad380fb036c042bd5f853200f864/41841113176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0f4f8b56dd7db7580eccae33886a35e/62957654759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/44500423376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c3dfa17c3d16a8f2534fd4f8e99887/71947214621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc1022f24c---nubijumofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd4f0c458be6b314d5a117e9839d439/molavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cc7719782---10455543341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/24866213428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/69818744561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d9c3ab8bd---muzirugirokopurizoratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b99a27436e12c0a00d814540edaf5b0/79777783607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d931f81d0b---25126768348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/jaxeresij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senfina.top/uploads/files/50339115465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5lmehdjniievs5ufoh2eqffm/39536015628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/95335867486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagleegg5k.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/tebinafapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/pedudimojububaxewolabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=homelite+26cc+blower+manualPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE77E 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 636526f8502abbb77a21955325368a8ede0ac4a68065aec9f1eb7183f47e240e
font_01_sfnt_off00010081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10081 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11893 18416 bytes
SHA-256: 42bd27c31a46ff15bca96a96cfb74d6e2cd9a62815a6fcc9dc81a234f804af50