Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33c7c04b208bcee5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-07-12 23:17:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a1b8a54c862cab8f9d89dc11ae507bcf SHA-1: 1f17b74b304b0aa7e15e84991127ef69cbfb6183 SHA-256: 33c7c04b208bcee569fd85157c0ed74788369d7a7ea1a28dd34c4e45994616a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as redirects to phishing or malware distribution sites, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/umqk1jgmv94261hfbjlpeve2u1/69806700668.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/faresalopapapilabus.pdf
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/jadoke.pdf
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/remifetedubarokafo.pdf
    • https://quaint-house.com/74053910974.pdf
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01lla8c9uje6mchfojk6dg3up/26652199031.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a981c06a6---lukevitine.pdf
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202105290850578883.pdf
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22048097134d9ab51977521b692e42f3/47302835595.pdf
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1008067064610991270091fa3945e64f/31809191066.pdf
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dddca5a2b75---33216641893.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46fce2e881---ragemukimuzojodonupe.pdf
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/vuzano.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a401e2174c6---xuvakewuk.pdf
    • https://avvocatoboretti.com/file/xixofagewoka.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/furediv.pdf
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00u4e6mnhu80mqiv4obn5477sg/20360097187.pdf
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96dddff06ca86c6a3aea7282bf95ebb3/dufodufizibuneb.pdf
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86051380b0---68216355370.pdf
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d56d0584a66---dokimeworogadoza.pdf
    • https://eslms.com/userfiles/file/84499144747.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25f3e01897---binonejelukoxopula.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=interjection+of+sorrow
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001095f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012171.bin
9231919729736da5aa4ffb97b8621c69e2466537cca585270ad8d8ac42e4d6de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12171 17596 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014f87.bin
937554d6fc01a988a9f3bc41f540efe4ff1a8a3576f473bc09275dae05af6da8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F87 10288 bytes