Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33ea2d4324222c5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-27 07:00:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 2609c2888805f7439751c9c3392b0c61 SHA-1: 6fc59d84e4e5b250d3589ae6a8c1da7ad5e45705 SHA-256: 33ea2d4324222c5d0f92a25ba1ff16654d5db4d10e1bdb0a8c784ffaf67f7c2a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic indicates the document likely provides instructions to decrypt or access a subsequent payload. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+forget+wifi+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd4bca7dc2bc3e8f1b1d909d24b72807/99299274128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damnoen.com/ckfinder/pho/files/pamejedogopodoriwito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maschimaurizio.it/userfiles/files/wugemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210915121456609376w01pajp61ysl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/togidusigelubonuliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/sujinizonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poeles-granules-vasconha.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25482066028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/rebexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonaparte-kerkrade.nl/fckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/file/gesasajep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/fukozoxafixuzoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/42256139233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf63db4f4a---nikopezakepizona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylabawadi.ae/userfiles/file/jupojemekubuvat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f1215fa9d---37247339407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ab8c0382d---10713325706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/feboxiwasosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/maxejila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czernavendeghaz.hu/admin1/file/felanavodaxanonugoforure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/gisari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c010a22ba1---97454921364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocaminiti.it/userfiles/files/57803862135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1250481qo0le5eeqb1a7cb17k2/welitogobalagixofevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/40200189466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/39151718406.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_off0000b50a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB50A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD21 10392 bytes
SHA-256: c573536c76920638b27f5cb35aad0a4e0fdb1f5d70235d8510f92aeb2880d28d
font_02_sfnt_off0000e490.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE490 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 9eb8de0c2397b9edf47672cadaa23950f19fcf1f5eb9c2aa220071d2305d442c