Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33756ba0e7b17400…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-10-27 07:46:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 880693a1d745f5c8ff48f4426b8351d4 SHA-1: 10bc21a51ce1686531e228c8594ad7e8f137f362 SHA-256: 33756ba0e7b1740091ec82c7e477a35c78ee106fc48be9db6729a3b1fed5ac6d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links form a link farm, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c5cc6325d2566751200525790404451/sokojuwusuzebaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/joloxeludezafutoxiveruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aaar.cat/assets/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47031788021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16168f7cd8df9c---14932397983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615214e810b95---jemagakoferasimulitiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kipia-nn.ru/userfiles/file/52457101966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rowoganurupij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/61705674844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/zepeteziladidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c501660882---87605417552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atletika-pardubice.cz/files/file/13490422337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gesema.com/UserFiles/file/13308470638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/melewisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondrejkocar.cz/img/file/xojodusulerirapojijupetil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62073283734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d973bd13d838235af4e897bbc5f0219/60077234922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/vawutapiguloledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trexanh.net/upload/files/48180576363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/selolodibowevese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxiburexuzonowolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/8676307730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbbo.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/47291710090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.ch/fichiers/newsletter/file/pulakapameviloxomilafogis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uchid.com/uploads/file/gakekis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/Z3ufxtS7Wvw/uplcv?utm_term=49+thousand+in+wordPDF 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_off0000cea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA4 10500 bytes
SHA-256: a18c37c27d67c4598d7b3fd49d9ee63ff8fd831ee9946e47007cdd33cf753c59
font_01_sfnt_off0000e691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE691 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 756b270f68dee52ab015a367d3712606546a8efc415baa0af493e021b5032dda
font_02_sfnt_off000114e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1