Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33657e1d2be81bde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-24 11:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 94cc7c7891aef224e36c05a629654f2a SHA-1: 99ea7a902af5f04a1f41b9c7f1c95f18935b28c5 SHA-256: 33657e1d2be81bdee4e1f4b8af735dae7b574c5cb4b26a54d7eafda49bdfa2cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics points towards an attempt to exploit user trust or search engine rankings for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/18128053895.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/40582228132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d57609ec546---50516397920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spcinternational.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74644068325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/10880600564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/labikewonezogumawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/zilebute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a18e29a1b---wenurolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/21852061813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c860a4a0a17---sipifuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/34263254454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a7ab90b4f5db9217f96d6c20546ac96/93528981841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b31c53c2846---56809974588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bb819dcb9d1---23797223910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqkm61tmg5eqr1bkni9200avbo/39124993336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094827c76823---53216015808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/sakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07e5a28d954a7e1a4957c8b285c059c6/fokepatofujudotaxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/zenotufepilupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a67c0d8572---xekagovamebonakokagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0s4mtrmqro5ot3k59h621rj1f/93107607683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/87893726991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=scientific+notation+worksheet+works+answers+kuta+softwarePDF 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_off0000eed2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED2 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 84107abefbea7fb806189605f009e07157443be37bfadc2fcbd3742ce18391c4
font_01_sfnt_off00011b26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B26 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 86dc244ee1c663fa623fb011b46b2c44def78ee94071e7d3e1b7a91d1496ee5b
font_02_sfnt_off000133e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1