Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33293a67cf225c00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c3ec1cadd762dc4928ce3b43a382670b SHA-1: 5dc8244bd14bde3ebb0f2f8489004d2407bab0d6 SHA-256: 33293a67cf225c00383aa9613de1729e9b23554812e76efc1741abd1da99d13b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, including WordPress uploads and link farms on disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+condicionales+1+bachillerato+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/miruzaxezesabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a03042785---livonoren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/39251191192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/jogadesovawigetun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49614638000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f12be9d4d9---1330951498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080279c6301c---tamunidadojigaberef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkemymm.com/image/files/gewoxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.org/upload/files/50506747876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages//files/96229388615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160814b810503f---redapejefitawato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e1f64bae1f138e288aa7287871efdc7/4326458090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f46514aa6d83cb6e6d0226877ebfe9e6/duzibapufonirivomam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/fubufitasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zujujorijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/3948249435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/93466931311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steffis-strassladen.de/userfiles/file/nipevukixupoporonolote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davisfolk.net/clients/1/1f/1f1070e31f35868a9a13f38ee7dc887f/File/60433090127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/lutuxixevusani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novinfasteners.com/userfiles/file/birulitokodovanade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/49552204108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/27054263844.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_off0000d408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD408 19964 bytes
SHA-256: 244a2b2b37af90f3f7d8c27fb716e2e0cb21e55b2395a6ab8e33fe5d9bf5f7c7
font_01_sfnt_off000106c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011edc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDC 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 70d686941e330e1a4f64b1f69a79d8b9c7878f4fed1b71b1265f4e822bdc2172