Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33e9f036b6b57328…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-08-07 08:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b4f93bd9ef8eb2343779b747e6a38cb2 SHA-1: 698adf349e91e04beb614c9cea5980ca89ec132f SHA-256: 33e9f036b6b57328bc293e9c58e26d64bccad3d4be881597fb5d18f692c66fcb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document delivery, likely via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc8b6ca9fa---nejezejabebukabemodovomu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b3794669b---65774190051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/5402235893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/87720370753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/pumovubamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencelesaline.it/userfiles/files/kunojebeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/dixifidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/fesitodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efsanepin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/39839006567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/12968351466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/280546348488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210720010247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/giwuxajilulizotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/58124027976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768d5a08b7a---mewuvelibajidowumibugefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livre-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nupudawovug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d50366c819863c1f5a8c99d014f23302/70276659643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77820e3421b2790e5b6e225b7791cd1e/24719596221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099483d5aab7---63293086295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/pobigafaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc61f106c0b2168256020fbdfb72aa6/62525143792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/1469920654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35537483325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97765b1d61927bda8750a5aa01488dea/fumuwozekinokokakafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dgtrans.co.th/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripiwibejajutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/dovurulofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/97657607969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a271360e510---87383298043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+say+bad+weather+conditions+in+spanishPDF 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_off00010422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10422 19356 bytes
SHA-256: 94ace8cf731c31ab0d63c4960a15ca492d4697e2858e99ab27cf68fbba4a3248
font_01_sfnt_off0001357b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1357B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014d92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D92 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 167bf1286b777854a29028bbd4a53dc23affe68750d93415fc677220ab8c2d80