Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33d7d0511d0fa7b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 23:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 22f275453b76e26808548e87924496a4 SHA-1: 0ffb30daf3d0369fc626b2d9f23b8d5e2eab3ddc SHA-256: 33d7d0511d0fa7b9eef292f5cd9f4acabb55aeffa5a08f05ee28bfc21a73b4cb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=radha+krishna+flute+ringtone+download+mp3+bestwap PDF link annotation
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/40886600985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/57608517617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/89983187694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6279a7086aa18062ed690e2e9c8a6880/6362817462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35bbdea3a07622b1b8b3e0651d816d2d/savedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulsaperstein.com/userfiles/files/zipenupuzejazalogifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d82942c28---mitovegudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rinulisanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5311483c2d---10803450410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/68081241749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/92539944446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/38684465638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enslev-anlaegsservice.dk/userfiles/file/8093660453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3263eb9eb76a6919999aaf77f5825af3/voguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pritchardreunion.com/clients/81409/File/67115599769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799c89e5523---sijixatuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/rusobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbulbalbir.com/upload/ckfinder/files/84604233186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a7642395ac---28348016173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba67bc53e8---90646519162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/dosigalafofelobeliluziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b9af4a00efd45b1e7320538d56b90fd/11280425421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7726b9f0d---xukafuzatolafanavoseziv.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10665 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_01_sfnt_off00011baa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133BC 22552 bytes
SHA-256: 2f99f6c160bfea02727c9aefaefc1092902f841a9e8814a0e7de5dc6b1da9c6b
font_03_sfnt_off00016e80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E80 11580 bytes
SHA-256: bcaa503611d8f2d3bf6f07420dcae10dcd666d16eecaff7241f5b0dfb77aef69