Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33837ec8154586c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:32:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2b62c6126e4260b9e2c5a70aaded9737 SHA-1: 4c75500f55c5a3f66957fc73d502c688f42b6231 SHA-256: 33837ec8154586c60832f37774c0222e82a308cc671b010670091077b24fd75f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to lure users to external, potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/tokavamedekonij.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9176e430bf24e7954de88cbb314edb26/rolarabudokagogabegaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6puqinmsmlb77a9036vq8rbcbr/marajitunesurireduralup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d74de6ccfd3a7c52ab43cdbc14fd0d/20667941038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6839e1abf34b734e2477d820dbf19b5/28918400426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9bd102b0db---miweburaxinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610815de98da3---povijarulaloxunakejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/nipivoziwoxezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/pezowigosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3c75pq3ld06ncl08otl84mo85/47928144098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bab0c1817---72437217353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7f19623118187586eee1b3f9374d2e1/rijetuvedivepujexujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://standsimulator.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14325951382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e73a220badc5835b37296fcbf5743c5/34462810864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e7729f95848afeee7af7002d89ee138/1283046999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c334ac55e7fbacd944d90a6e25349b97/71097365729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb403629faa---kapofipufesuritixilewefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/66388738472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/9874978866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db931d647e---82275757108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ca1970.com/clients/10044/File/1553387961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078256041539---2120936436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=english+sentences+with+tamil+meaning+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000ba10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD222 16684 bytes
SHA-256: cca6c908669af81a14863a4a687527f3854145a45e83e4fcdcd9ce779e280538
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2E 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 50045ef3d56e579769b7d669dbc1aee3d2e75fd2bdd0ca45c86def2cdde71ed2