Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 033e7706c317f2f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:48:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4a5ea152faef9e9ce4ba197730070d44 SHA-1: 491427ff62207caa74d57cb8b941bfd0bef062e7 SHA-256: 033e7706c317f2f47f42b7c00b3088d8675c35de2c36bbbf09e1a131dfbdd748
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains. This pattern is commonly used to distribute phishing content or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/46398438908.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/viraninakonabuselil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/dagotomesom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c13fc52a2467ebbf5a1a04b98e77836/86838475771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/56412137260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090acbf9654b---18378280646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb34aa11ad---webugunatogabuzukeram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b26556de2b4e15fd5db7daabdbaf15a/sidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/34708354010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06d0f95a9e---65525583512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d86b236f2---73160421066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/64691676880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afa0usoe0a6se6d5js4hdv409r/gugedogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd2aaf3ae6da668fcfd1855d670dc70b/20723738161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinic4lab.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210627115452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/gemarevejaxivejufejujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/51951107644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f0ad75104003eb0d0714a10f2258269/zekobafazaxabonenejiravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9480e827f9c2acd7075352ad33f2e69/tokuraziki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210514010202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/gajiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03c4ba6a51---27257333777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndge7o29572qddl7a8as7ovb78/38931815240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d49d7bfe1c85978eed5562f5774c2e2/88344359461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2445a2727---kesegonusepisikupesukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=the+avoider+in+a+relationshipPDF 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_off00010cca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCA 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 7643e5566b027548179b48e9eb27c88732887510eed9bce3125c33b82a70be69
font_01_sfnt_off000124b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013cc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC4 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 479f653e9ce59248affc1db0ccb16aed37be88319c191135e07e03946f8ea904