Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33bd0ed0c1b23c3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2254e100219fd61ddc0f2735cadceec1 SHA-1: 6a3db12966b54783fb0d73db3f53adc1ab6ab037 SHA-256: 33bd0ed0c1b23c3c6e1e73c0d2b2ecb5cd655fac667e64768fc7ec2a711c1c4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this as a phishing trojan, and ML classifiers strongly agree. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/raxifudulozomewus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/80302258421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almavilag.hu/files/files/13681378753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab8933128e---wurufuzenusosuwefoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/wupikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606f5e970c8ab---14505094630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/pativosunavudakadaritigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/woxoroxazofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e671363977---vipuzadejemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/89231201093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/jewunajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/052860b7bbecddc8acb560252089ad76/62049633577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapepakofurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aobmllitijfdepd0r84sc3080i/nutaderujivufabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/nijifopefibabikezula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulada.by/upload/editor/files/bifelaxivujidalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ff88c41e6b31c81f88e5194beb1d0a9/97986781921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9991d3191---sodutavutokowokasogobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mooneyes.pl/userfiles/file/soxewajenezakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mudiboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jgqi9pqb89ql5m29abof9rj7m/78316423526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823b3e8eb0a---25564595070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1916923a9202e153ba846c6c820b7357/79968350823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ccf0ead74992a6c45511dcec7b4c23d/66884985438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifulhairstore.com/upload/files/44179686363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=test+disturbi+alimentari+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_off0000cdfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDFA 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 4d0ab213a35cc85fc21c8f7ba63b39800ccd8a393ee0496d639d944e9198d707
font_01_sfnt_off0000e662.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE662 18272 bytes
SHA-256: 46de75e2df1a521f7bfbac56b26a5f4d107f68648285061116ab02deb036d32a
font_02_sfnt_off000114fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1