Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a33e889665371c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:58:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 79b8f7f1120cc53c8a548aee7db40d6c SHA-1: d61bacb7e2b958c444af5e31469aad5342ed06f2 SHA-256: 2a33e889665371c86e15b26eb906ecc114b15190f969cab23e1593df6faefd66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cool+o+words PDF link annotation
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/45030086618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f7e18551f---72565800885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kprmk.pl/userfiles/file/mudufori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-a0dcf319a153.breakthroughsport.com/userfiles/files/suguxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/88487048818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradotel-riviera.com/file/minogozafewipovitegorisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161471489c27e7---57213521843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dezunofaxogojewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210905_085414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldeaquidauana.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63948921117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucpb.com/userfiles/file/53251739876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adci.vn/data/upload/file/64312349818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gryfarmerskie.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/62762678738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/feburemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7j90pi0f2ahjalapgmjp206psv/pudenafererizebavurowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0017f0e98e897d4522efe3b514d5c0bd/95124076843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camelliafb.com/uploads/files/202109041159464159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/50972800994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161434c1abaa93---732503889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613154480a264---85490060572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7pn6qc9i5koo2adb24gqjiofu/xivekuroferilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021091402023573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/pirunuwulumarulekujilibuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaibamboorestaurant.ca/phpsites/bard_ford/uploads/file/bavakiwunajegafejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/311725128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiglic.sk/userfiles/file/64114524754.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_off0000b89f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB89F 9768 bytes
SHA-256: a10013ce17eb4b6f0d747aa77d433089efb0136453bdccda96b9ff11e63af496
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE639 15928 bytes
SHA-256: 854ef2ae65185ed116b24b176e33c2876d535094da94b67e3a6c6d6099b391af