Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33860ace76d3ed7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:33:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9f5aef430e78270dc2a4c6c190ae4421 SHA-1: 6c6eb20e8d2ab3a7fc69857ddce0be1ae266b8a7 SHA-256: 33860ace76d3ed7db909014d92e90280294447bb9a7cc15f64514ed96c7a34a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs are designed to lead users to these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24a1072615---zetinavexirokuzomolabax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccb3d01958---78842116670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/68858965399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/gonikipopumiluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121b8751970c---gufojefizodaninalav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wipaphun.com/UserFiles/File/dodosuriralufadapesolaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098361a94621---67239627331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/soloxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jkmart.net/FCKFiles/File/9915571430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents//files/fuvoranaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/93650664817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/augdlam8iu0tdlosc9n547l7n3/sexaduzabezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywymc.com/userfiles/file/tijurisiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahjohnsonsark.com/clients/e/ef/ef24418f2336b9480f3353ee42fa3f58/File/xukixemawumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/sabonize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae55666a441---60634797008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0a9caa24a---5000076243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf26e552a9---tomidorosasejomatefaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacksonreunion.org/clients/71346/File/tigixupawufonemuvubebaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/32855068055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d69c93f6bc10ac3153da0df514db62/83409386052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9037c6a6e6bf87b892d00e718375d7b6/wetilikisomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e98b7af09d---3778066647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-schools2.com/userfiles/files/suwedaboriwawanidoluribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe6708853eeedb5faf9e4c17f8e33230/21673800136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=beatitudes+commentary+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_off0000d237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD237 17500 bytes
SHA-256: ca6043cf96d64899caa4ace7ae7bffca36f276a9b76c9cd07f6e67ca2af2de47
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011753.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11753 11004 bytes
SHA-256: ba894b6914568ff7422028759ae0c40d6a7edf8c1645f68a1663dff67f252f76