Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33ed2706eb45a7e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.7 KB Created: 2021-06-10 00:32:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 7efdce35c96055bd007c790d28989196 SHA-1: 989288ee8bfb596683fda2bf30e72d2cd763103f SHA-256: 33ed2706eb45a7e42cf14747d30a9fe24c906249107bdb73bda68ba2f96325f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to "Bahubali songs tamil mp3", indicating a lure to attract users to click on the embedded malicious links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bahubali+songs+tamil+mp3 PDF link annotation
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/11441370023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982eb9afd3b---kuwavexolavadope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pututisifijurebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonacorsi.it/file/voxajuxafozofajosir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57bc0ead16---74077615383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b1cc5c6d80b5d266ae5aad7ddd81cc/kemejufegesesosijefituto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhqqfbv3g2h5p8grk2n7668vgg/60168568709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f40b52c765---lusemifufoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjur0llgqr0qdrglpul5pjt9vt/bolimixumodubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/pikeredenitobukewatigise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c60d8fb91a8de998816a0d88050465f/98060187411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9pd12qucpakscrfe938r0c449/zamopibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off00013b94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B94 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 5bb843f10201451bb3b5698792babc1e9c5d25f84939251cfea7574d425b48d1
font_01_sfnt_off00014e1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E1C 11060 bytes
SHA-256: a918be460a773908262002b97b7559203817f624b139c2a935a09010f35f5234
font_02_sfnt_off0001741a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1741A 16368 bytes
SHA-256: 2c5f51a476b4274b6b900fbba81fc97c04b4f1697b1aac53cf696a9c53e0885f