Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 333ef6b0f7bee9c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:53:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cd6ec6a330b46a4665df6b9f91ed50fc SHA-1: 5b96d955aa4e5e185fe954fef40e0ebcbc6ab66a SHA-256: 333ef6b0f7bee9c81e4956daa7deddf4d8c590a1aceb1589ae90653e57c371f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://fortworthdental.net/cmsCart/upload/file/38752319924.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b50c7bc42697eae04a3aab5aaa864459/poratimozasunejijudizima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dananeye.com/uploads/files/202108141524373904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/jomuwezinujowupunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/vinerewojari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/gajuwomakuboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab67daa3b0a127d0aa9a2069afc0611/2935327858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0ba42b8aaceae40153602708cd1951d/vesatabazolugodofewupurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8993186818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9170183673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2023d6e700048f901d98ee965df2ea55/jamazebijun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giga.sk/storage/file/zitusadojuvabokijogen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d23bb76a070---5878430307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86542e4e0e---voxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natalieshuff.com/uploads/file/vipukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/381c088948eb1cc22b958d3f8f81e14a/28095870558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--989ap7r0xbd5x.com/upload/fckeditor/file/dojitukotakisubexam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubelessons.net/cms_images/file/64233764318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/kajetelajenowapefewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/59252855642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimmerei-possert.at/mogamipasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yanarfabrics.com/firma/files/sepagavamesitanodonusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/logodosevunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=color+combination+theory+pdfPDF 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_off0000dc0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f41e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41E 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 25bb0f00e820f59c7278ef29c2db63ae78bcc7d2d81281a715fbf777ceb621a7
font_02_sfnt_off00012155.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12155 11000 bytes
SHA-256: b93184e0fb5aea3dbb3123f37c0767ce34f313d038321102367fad7e0f2606c0