Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0533c366eea59af8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:54:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 00d2428828c25da53efb1e47440dd9f4 SHA-1: cc7808c6d61a4fc4bbaeaf111d85e25580c4ea26 SHA-256: 0533c366eea59af822ee90483ca07d54d7acd69c5ea93aebf0257438f1a004aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable or potentially compromised domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210511222035.pdf
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df68bddaeb---dobawedefivup.pdf
    • https://hocngoaingu123.com/upload/files/kiduw.pdf
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc15ba247ea3e4fd68218b0ad3472986/68006371193.pdf
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d062c7937e---vavudi.pdf
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/jesolifokixetote.pdf
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e88e9fc3338b51194ba7a41d52ccfc9/fofonageka.pdf
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/97862221658.pdf
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848d2b9e38d---luxuwotun.pdf
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904e8903d24---wegukorebizatu.pdf
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021060518413135.pdf
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad854a1504c---76935953857.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c343ca41d---gujotexugazelixawo.pdf
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/bidon.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f571799255---baxamese.pdf
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/zejizefabikuxegikesupomel.pdf
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/rivopopekafabutodan.pdf
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/449c018258e608ed7b4b6ab45d65c3ea/limurozikivonazolite.pdf
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/44696161091.pdf
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/pezunapodafi.pdf
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25gc0ke1u87nnp7mpa2klqk9a6/21169427806.pdf
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28788095842.pdf
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730fbf53f24---vadejigabimuwuro.pdf
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c919a94b753b237377b2c6a93fbbce/52251722674.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=translate+verbal+phrases+to+mathematical+phrases+calculator
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000111d8.bin
3aa341e470b8533f6a707792624b46ddb4ee0dba7b354f6497fe7cd11a3b1669
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D8 19160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014507.bin
582ba3701d59ab0eb7dba08778165c46e4c96133f1e05e80a0f12a1abc30b4f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14507 10908 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015dde.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DDE 16792 bytes