Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33dd2a3dc2a4dd7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-08-05 08:54:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2bf10a24dc3d75c904cd173b6d00d2e7 SHA-1: c1e77a34e9aa3b643710d125a2bc468077cc0a2a SHA-256: 33dd2a3dc2a4dd7b73aff042636970f0e34c9cd0889ac91e9cbefc473f3b1dd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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 http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db124464241---17594122825.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc28ab009622e0554a07574d82302030/gapefimawejifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/jikane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/wubagexofadabazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/66834973248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalaviationmuseum.com/userfiles/files/87409106869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11fa23aba9---73600560314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/63634415759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c701b69e3f8052ea31f2cd124fbc8d9/ripekududolokanafexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fazinokukesijefuweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64aea83d70d31214e03949abba1c6a57/mogipebesepawejovulogewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed8abce795a---zizutezatafedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://struttur-arch.it/userfiles/files/fepavigizidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/kutopotawokaresuniwuxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleni.cz/userfiles/file/dunutetima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/20014452264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelindigha.com/FCKeditor/file/59071626933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/wisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqrtcijstpgfjm4k5o4on0fi6f/12873546358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2e58a5ac3---genepasezibodoxodixupofex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73iu77urh49jt8u418ej77bsi7/dajoritesolelomik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/48638164136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/119766639860922975d9c12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766505e5240---98761294707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pabixekiremevepidubokowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bobevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=le+mod%C3%A8le+de+l%27atome+secondePDF 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_off0000ff39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF39 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 89fbb4d89dc17bcdd7ba54f73c406d108860a79bb1e74f671d89789538e25b5b
font_01_sfnt_off000116c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C9 19460 bytes
SHA-256: 8cb42035b588efda3e6127df447629ac9a838044d24118a55a62611cafcf3951
font_02_sfnt_off00014756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14756 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1