Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33e00704e6e3df7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:09:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7277b5dc3382f44140419a59be0257cc SHA-1: 968490071ac2655a35d95709bde6c81ee63cfa9e SHA-256: 33e00704e6e3df7c5b41d32fa40e10044e2cc0735ce234cde9028ff061c1ae73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload directories, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to disguise the malicious nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65bf77a0b6c618ffb3fa3abaa1abb5ec/88501252254.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609222b01cb5e---zinovaviboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5348a29db106cedf21d8d02715a299c9/sazanupabilupoxavopib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec8780d1cc---sokudifakijagosupaxovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93968285552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d771f40c75---78094394298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/sotodoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/70901684066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfed0913dc---76126274903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13715184017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608823905edf3---zodiwuxedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ca459667e---dikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16240721993612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079feb6d4e0f---20684902414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097fdf9cd3de---forane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/bijosamulodanovojovinilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jqpg46ebcfvqecftsg1v2aik8/wuketujowiribavinijir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28ef36fa0b404899e710d7320ffbe7f5/26218287342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/rudaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab72c31f671---palemafutopuvosufuveluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f980a873bc88d6c7c6e94321109cdfa8/xapekoluwogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/fobugudofepulokiribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/retefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81d054c5c4---47658098417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u982fhoau5mv9i9t9mq4kta5p6/82247507503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=perceived+stress+scale+questionnaire+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001056c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056C 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 2eef5a9ddc0af44d21bf8853514faf201c7cae216dad425a3539f2e09fcd9e94
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA9 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 5145f6b3bb0eda33e71528febb68756195457c87d340ac32143d7f189b890071