Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 133c541be30f67e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8c897b2e0dad74584102b2a72c11f69b SHA-1: eef2940de9dfb7c4191f6ee40c35a759cba704cc SHA-256: 133c541be30f67e6da831efe0d1c1149aad811b4bb38d8b0968f504a7c806ef7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b1129a1c4---72343960047.pdf
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vunevitakozonubajadose.pdf
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/97371779841.pdf
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/17496932521.pdf
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44tdnpn38f3d26pgtlpkcvf6c1/lilitujepamopinufevu.pdf
    • http://htcable.cn/d/files/vobojunumusufopekesided.pdf
    • https://worldcastlive.com/userfiles/file/3220610564.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607226baad5b2---xakimexerak.pdf
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46ad1a5f6a5434aee4d3549cfc7f606f/zereb.pdf
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a74b2088a6ba96a143774033d4fd6b73/bolabidirepakovero.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb6f1bc763---lumulurepipiperodibovuwi.pdf
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842247e46ca---94587789363.pdf
    • http://mebell-city.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42967922867.pdf
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/1426464140.pdf
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/finogejisidomevukugeninu.pdf
    • https://ghnservizi.com/file/62982669296.pdf
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/97750198482.pdf
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/62856999594.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2267a2db4---gabuwobopikukodupuwovo.pdf
    • http://polish-house.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/73666438263.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c563c952e64---kufufaxulabadasep.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8ssdt37hqj910nlci1stvcdat/refabomapuroxod.pdf
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/48293299499.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=a+diet+master+cleanse+pdf
    • 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_off0000f3de.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3DE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010bf0.bin
2f7edeae4ca010816af936bdae70e199cfe832aeb8e4cba6b6c8039be37b2c82
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF0 19044 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d2f.bin
757c780d94e22a5ebf775d326da8bc54747e96a9e6a0bc37cb3e878afcf9bb71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D2F 10644 bytes