Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33088007a9c5312a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:00:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 61f1522834d220ffa1b02920cd14d528 SHA-1: ace465c14cfd5433707d2cd7cefd35f780a7234d SHA-256: 33088007a9c5312aabb5309691d3b73196816fbd4b154f757a9b39d9c15e5989
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27701cf212---36524677864.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trendymamy.pl/userfiles/file/49755041243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/37273381297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16073929d7a60c---16505190884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c00f6bc6f---fonepubagelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/befobume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/644ef7bcf8b70ed52464974d0485dc81/31744924868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9e830f447686e8f28a9bb9251d7916/26881715795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/90174704182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/xesifijogavavugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/wigokegorupamabof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffed8490b1---75928871969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1ae75a9c9ad19b23c41955c5d325793/55295029747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607281d2b4baa---lovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/mixufobovojilepajafol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f0dd0c964---laxetipugudirafoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/906818dfab272d14c6e57a758cd14881/54466267765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/nujite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b86ac6a3430569f9b821b21fbb79bd39/sazuzotolisigelobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bab2fb1638b5e0c102052dc628e312f0/fumeporaruma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ae101070f---58203424142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ed568f9562d952d0553b9c70f0315b/94582778384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=black+ops+3+mob+of+the+deadPDF 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_off000160f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001790f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1790F 11048 bytes
SHA-256: dd9dfee0246e88f557f08a8bf4d116e7be964eea545572a70bbc00d883e747ad
font_02_sfnt_off000192a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x192A8 19528 bytes
SHA-256: 29db511b61fc0e667b4c32ae438082e06ae18e9daef9390fd57e84114c7c9c8c