Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33480e971844dc6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:50:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cfa7bf21030291b578d9a3af34a878d8 SHA-1: 4e2ee1b9da17a02b5fdbb0465eb3fbbb9f9b6c04 SHA-256: 33480e971844dc6bab9bb8287051274dd6e680b954e6f5371308898af1b9419c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to distribute phishing content or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af95b09df0---nikodorafotukexiruvidorat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://labradory.pl/file/luwufiperunepavidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/43002056037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggled-smot.com/ckupload/files/99936590152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/74497208003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126ec569b4df---boguvixus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38eecec5a0---nefidubebutawelukato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1edf6f4a3f7540e4e58f0ac6ad0fd78/kusemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/9927809196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/kebunubupuwowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5f77af653e011b08040035378d9eb86/tunowesiwawibizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vk4min08n1c02ab7nbhgb9oo50/71052880431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b370cc83480---tanupagutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/bibodilegipemexaruxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4v48r1v1859vqnob6bur5qj9g/40305364804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66c1775976---viwazadarefatuzupako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40b65d0a3d---xemepawewitomazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6729b5be7b1a6b5cd404010c299f0ab/81568394102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc4ca85d5c---vujegusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701409435cb---fududonedanobegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/vagapuzunatomobazozugela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096845e9533d---bebawilusovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ff2dec5d8d---ribuvumuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/69767320992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=silent+night+sheet+music+satb+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_off0000f08b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08B 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 7f3579b597014f01183c2df260f461064c6a03354a7978d1a5429fea2dc5a8a2
font_01_sfnt_off000109f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001220b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1220B 19540 bytes
SHA-256: ccbde19312dff9ace05e8e7e4a8f12afcadd09e934e637f29607db9be4ee67a3