Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f33812e4d48ad7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:57:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: edfe0eda210e5dde967ae862546a7772 SHA-1: 328cf9d9f15718ea244365561ba3864bd2d9cbdc SHA-256: 2f33812e4d48ad7f6f40fee3502dcfcfa8f8de1721ffe755e1eab676ac2a5e46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosting PDF files on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcf45dc40f---93550101027.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/warube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/40929306796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a30399f1118---89424501324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb180ab265---20695524305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609451b71cd83---sexogutotabizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4221b753b---35310190957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82efa5c6b1c7f371c2989c0a69b6103c/momasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac1daf9a10ef61c9a8b1eed5d95c79f0/25690116109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f749a782834b1fd91b65aa75ec3b2073/jodupopajedabumonelaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f73d5a234---dorilubufupanejaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/miwisevavulusifetaferex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f29dde883f---zunatazagunujefidakuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098598fe4423---99545961892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/53922781000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070298c74d13---57628150589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4pqpufdnovjakdbbdjqh61c63/38643072632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/91473741647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086367d5dfc7---sinevovevasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rej9d10m2n06972c0dgvjhj8c/80149818676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6843f4dc8a640e1a452d3315fb7b116/41621774781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d23ea84da809c9e0771b19d44c03cf5/sukulozonokavosawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=synonyms+of+surprisePDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ef2536459b06634b2308fab8173e2bb/54420375636.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_off0000f5e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E0 17356 bytes
SHA-256: edc9d7892a7056361e4c3b47007e4d969dca4e9395e7a8aee6cee1e235aecff2
font_01_sfnt_off000122eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B02 10504 bytes
SHA-256: a40236fca23e1e307008bec98049498c2fd00266d9b5abdd0d27e13989da0e5d