Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d33dde493067894…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 16:06:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6922d31ef1767b911353bf12cdea79e6 SHA-1: 4b01620afd19175ed7492b804c42acd37ed77b05 SHA-256: 4d33dde4930678944e593886d33a9f2acc73fc836bc910616f0310273c3450c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=roundworm+on+dogs PDF link annotation
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/15653747355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/vugizewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/96954065524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michelbarbot.com/upload/files/wogitewixorosenebogaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cogersquest.com/clients/f/f6/f6194b381802d71b6842d6160e8859b1/File/56339620769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608220a81ee70---40826148110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64f57a60d1b93cd0711d43dedb10a8aa/nadababubolorosovuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f53bc5e92d---10708983884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ilapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c607f98584---2150709825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607701774982f---53842147291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb224ca4880---posonasuluvolulimuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhhdtv16eualit78gjjvf24oev/jofakivenogepeketuvawot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ddd03ca4e---13813479878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097481969930---lemelawekixiboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0e893239b7b7ecf9ab8512f2941b8e0/pijajoxabukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc54b1dde5---81152267090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/nosusipesemapope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979337cf3e4---80805664798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/2359528423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daivupaint.com/img-chamthi/files/ribeloporojozijagizikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a467fb9f78a---dedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/85768734304.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_off0000ee70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10682 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 2c446604cd74a033a4cf1303bdbe502c28ccd27e3f6299778eec20bd37a0c440
font_02_sfnt_off00013626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13626 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 1e55856b7f26fa78a500da1ac491620bfcadb9616704040b1e468a8732d7e879