Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33d4f6ca945bfd7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-13 15:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ad321bfa9b17b496aa6e586d6b1d8b39 SHA-1: 17f36581c738186d312294fba719fbdd97b36d8b SHA-256: 33d4f6ca945bfd7abb79527dc3e233a090fe3e79027c1f9eaf0f8973165b638e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain metadata related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a 'yugioh tcg banlist 2020' search term, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yugioh+tcg+banlist+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02f503584171a2311796e85d8e0663e0/garebuvokuwixenafafiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609104a815ca1---82435249903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61hp4t7crfu652tk3dki8u96t0/muniwifakinepexizixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c29e9c13d19f2660997caa0a0cb182d/sivotajuzutetibuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/15489926956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khyljg.com/uploadfiles/files/boxeduwupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/dofegalinam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vr4mtansk6d5g12te0mtf47oem/xalobukozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/femowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797f69da556---33001595416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81bdcf1eed---88573366879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8184802513---pegagiranokijubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792ae7ccd11---68227259458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2bc9cdbb8---riminokudida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/17797722655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae7533413b---83181185156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F0 5340 bytes
SHA-256: dee297722dc06d7d30d8363b0c1b47513c0ce6d6422cbdbac8a066fb79506070
font_01_sfnt_off00011827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11827 11732 bytes
SHA-256: 7dae432a0f11e544477b8a18b412a0df07250938344b91006f80729f0715b49a