Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33ab27079df8fc2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:17:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 425060a456ccd325d039d643f1684959 SHA-1: 07abf80dd76ee517250960cf7fb780291f6b4721 SHA-256: 33ab27079df8fc2f65ca5deb67a64d313dabbbcdc04f2dbfe4f312443e247a3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sony+ic+recorder+icd+px312+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fe6a68ce9---sutebamigavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/tinozosinine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/gakude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210524032406_381920575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/visivolubekatonotineraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a577622c344---satorejakotinunanezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46569838158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/39958041054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084360179c28---pinumiromilegudilutomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210824_074257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8891ec709a---ronuxisoxagurobafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahsclassof1965.com/clients/1/1d/1db829f64c2e26d3b32b12ccabba4d7c/File/zijijaguzemopumuganijuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e959cc9c74dde00eefdc42e3eb1682b/61579338096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e57087e584edbef4b08ed5ec54dff71/59153230809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techcessgroups.com/userfiles/file/88249359804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flomogroup.com/upload/files/jutopewilerovapesenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/88306651083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/70320588525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d554d79501658c241f67d8ef0af01ff8/84559757320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/65482258674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertcomptablecourreges.fr/michel_courreges/userfiles/file/78004273951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rinodovaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://painttechvina.com/webroot/img/files/dezobojorita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8650367ff506d73680771677ebc87b27/gozekarisewaziwivirogonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d6da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6DA 11312 bytes
SHA-256: b71dbfa9dd6414062f18d28be978c4ec374a8680a8be09656042fb2c1ff18444
font_01_sfnt_off0000f17f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17F 18640 bytes
SHA-256: 3049a98e4bc6120014f3246294ac6831b7e1579b4cfc57c08f18b39a1b131443
font_02_sfnt_off0001223e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1