Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 333d6690f28f8942…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:24:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 00182b7eaf0d925d34d999d3c9c4206f SHA-1: bb1a2121f642f028ede2d994b7097b40ade1fabf SHA-256: 333d6690f28f8942f3b6c2ef4d087ad8c5abff257111ab55a39f6242f072ab43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document's primary purpose is to act as a link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=things+that+start+with+letter+n+preschool PDF link annotation
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/satabevireporenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ita.kru.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/surikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/turoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterteto.hu/userfiles/file/jagivigewatew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwbright.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901150224761464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozanetiket.com/TasarimAcarnet/serhali/upload/files/fibametawebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393f917ec6a---fivujufafofabiripufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/210913055423934015m8bhr3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614696b13d05e---kunoxoluzajisiluvulemodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodebiaggi.eu/userfiles/files/zimikikowawomisadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cokhivietuc.com/img-vietuc/files/nusixegekulinosozinavamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ndmoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jujijosevovomumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphogacomposite.com/upload/files/raganigovilomovim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gilovewejifejafowifaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pre-www.bridge-college.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/sixotetekerutirovere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foxadv.net/file/175904415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a27a1b7ed---giwigefetid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottomaniantextile.com/userfiles/file/fusarogofuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/bugisuninenizawilodutuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/41722525162.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_off0000e845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE845 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 91fd2645524a922236b05cdb0eedf3003c0cdfff325a59ea7c869360c26cd79b
font_01_sfnt_off000115bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012dd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD3 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 3ca994c78ab35a55daa7309f3baa94b31174b5fa4226de463162604b8e54520f