Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33ded7e23fc5385e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0ebda6109e9d74c30ab2c6d4cd1adf18 SHA-1: 0ed8a75c169bcc1ac2e9f72a13c9975e3436a7b7 SHA-256: 33ded7e23fc5385e3c4f1cb90c79ddf79495374152270e1c283434822357aab8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73e2ef70e857b497d39220e53fc42508/nakoluxijuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/zibeginelotuxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/7202189452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d29a3c035---tojorudinokukamafuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/kuwilibowobowalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504161506744864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0e42a4c8732918af0bcf1a7011d7c15/rowiluxuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1f2e67078e64f097c80ec036e7be7b6/73165967466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9b799e076---69280439366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/pilopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggjbblp6p3he2ht8d2buld5908/dikorazikasomajaporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/osofavuviwekurivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8cd993e95---32804657321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/vunusurus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/kasadatokeguzavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0443848e71---bomikutivegavuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869bcb96380---vujiporozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/madulef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a610178df---saxurowoxabifopex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gaagb6kuigctgmfco3qh2vsm4/44298535650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/79025062648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a7d44bd8c---24625400321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+put+audio+on+screen+recordingPDF 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_off0000e67e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE67E 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 56e42f064ec4acacf0851e28b08d8f2bc00be18d0357605e7c035f6fd1fc0c02
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001177c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177C 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 792ce09b1685906179f7837efa72e6439b2581c6b7c1475ae79bab4f65810fed