Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33e1ff2ddf5c2c5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:31:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ed34ad59bb3fdede1f81b05948ee96fe SHA-1: f2b327e3675d4875bde573460972384a82c8ce40 SHA-256: 33e1ff2ddf5c2c5fef06b3bbc35e0b3e184b95f96709775c56264e259bf7a725
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is largely unreadable, but the presence of link farms and compromised CMS uploads suggests a tactic to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=john+wesley+small+group+questions PDF link annotation
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/43481299607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/93323431062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/gunidana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/zefakulufejigegagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggnnhubnbvcnkuak0manva0jp9/2014450796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77b12d51da---pesokipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42a85a25ce---jokivusekosaxiwiwine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1a93d1737---jugigigevawonobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608decbb6bc85---buxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/59568439688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e4a952a40---nubanejosulavovarewojufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770e9e342fd---22173935180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/6693181362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b36bbaacd1---sikenurukuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712309b0b01---37269708386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classtool.info/upload/files/xafozepujabiwupugagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/powifaduzojorufave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5881f343e---57852220931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naucseto.cz/storage/38054285195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8a511ae1b---zarilolimewowuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/66228257297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3d53615f5f757bb37688a36a160c1cf/21015293626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b838b35166e---21464041934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944290dfac7---81396125697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvcqm514n51k96udu6gg3t40a3/79331787565.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE83 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 78c6506169ed921320695bd86a793b2d2b4e728ddc817de132832d8d84d32bbf
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E7 11136 bytes
SHA-256: abb077f4ea457cddbe40e30084da3a55eba02fc51cff8a7f4ec83b16e19ba51e