Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33a787cef6326d66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.4 KB Created: 2021-08-26 12:01:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 29226a949229994adbff29cea5b8e89b SHA-1: 7ad2a78b3a9e63985697c1eeba71406fee540b0f SHA-256: 33a787cef6326d66af29e88f0cee4f3587233c6b1e2d5d39dddeab3c6cd31ef2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, some of which host other PDF files. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking readable content that would indicate a specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/378rqsmnp65iq2o9n59bidl7k4/dojuku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://activsport.ro/userfiles/file/bifuninavimodolosifipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2018.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuboxakiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/45511113286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panelshock.com/userfiles/file/99905115029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60360653750f22d8d98b2662b8a3811/bumuxirukodidoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f020c3e44a---vuketisedibogewakijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210819070913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95891018204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fcbd77557---rupolunexejesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tillmanfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b7385abc5988d1ee605fea7695e3d00e/File/66155085013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/43334242371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hms31.ru/img/file/zexeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b72fab8c24a25ec447b9325d9034e79/53750363793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ritiperepagosugasuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b03f81d1d---dosapimunajexeruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/gasirobadaniwudoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/jarakejugexuxenotavakutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e5bcd9049---mexejijali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/zikekibiwixuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a41d4b8ea9ed58605d6137dacbf2a5d/roriwizirorofafejinasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78234205628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/21115650879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa7fd97ed8---15340146160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=chemical+engineering+design+towler+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_off000196c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x196C0 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 4862e5d5209181e618b09e9f7ea5ffc6cde9800dc8410cfc8dde539e677951a6
font_01_sfnt_off0001b099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B099 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 25d1d5b792969dec483b1826025aa7576fb0644c85d7667ce74afd4eb290fc6b
font_02_sfnt_off0001df51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DF51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1