Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33e7e12786c8be73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:19:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8935a9d79ebd0cc702e34f5fd14f579c SHA-1: c83a23a86682f330364753ad352b111fe69ac3aa SHA-256: 33e7e12786c8be73f4b31dc5eb3477b4049d2e82cec08b6183e5bf50cc6c2ddc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of these links indicates an effort to direct users to malicious content, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5942a3d2e---26605239668.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf6i3gtmmu5o3qvr756dggcep7/25876438475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/xuwutemoriwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-18/20210618195759505531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b2c19f29808b91693fb319b8fb299bf/57063690513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/12230784888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coatielectronica.com/files/85301713434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210524163105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/1571450072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/soledova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://integrotech.com/zdjecia/file/26243269447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e186b1d1411fd76347e1002c811ba9/77066958444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/56038847216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3kcq8t9qjff8ngktrkbslj930/7591272150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803b6f0016f---vasunobejenitalebozin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb810659462d58ab1416c657c812302a/vanezubizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ai7bk45077cbt44ac8uljrim/48782823948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72c2f9878a---6063600158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/dodikavoruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78e7addbf316adde398213c488b23240/befijatasasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praconsulgroup.ru/pict/file/8913015350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793a8a4112a---50130993764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/97508407886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=fun+games+to+play+in+class+when+boredPDF 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_off0000e152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE152 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 93c19b9e17f6295755640250c968e1713b53d7c82baec04ad5a8ae61cda7add3
font_01_sfnt_off00010ed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ED5 11380 bytes
SHA-256: bf9e0bdedaed5712d7ced87d1c4f22729562c090d2816a049519eeed7e99d72c
font_02_sfnt_off0001291a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1291A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1