Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 533ca8659782e2c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:58:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8a920877a8fd23c6395d6234cc2ca1b8 SHA-1: 5c0771e529cbd3fde1fbb04a6ab18ea74aabf6b3 SHA-256: 533ca8659782e2c6c2d0b33764aa19aefcb91e1ec5698e659ada08087b76b38e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous disposable domains and compromised CMS uploads, including a URL with a 'remote protected online exam' term, suggesting a social engineering pretext. The malformed stream length heuristic indicates potential exploit activity within the PDF structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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=remote+protected+online+exam PDF link annotation
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/84606673666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barnesfamilyre-union.com/clients/52050/File/30035487882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/22881583517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841e5774cc3---semeloboromowipagoturero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///41284686582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2591d59a97bf966fdd52863f7d68e25e/91523125606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/julupoxezudafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/wizurobozuweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhodnoceni-penez.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/xodipabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloshoppingnepal.com/userfiles/file/30821858893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/jifamabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/79862309914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beming.com/ressource/site-image/files/41593443946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/57426825500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1b8cc601af08a8311225d41e874dce0/45425733821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/66908679500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73a9a3367af3d022e552bfe8a4889fd5/sediwojajinudosudipole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saydersan.com/firma/files/laregopenapomexagola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44cbfe2a1b98c4a0ca53d18b7064e991/maxedoretepelobimopane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/vefavapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/kopifiralujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/96715124283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maximaviajes.com/FCKfiles/file/38539807225.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_off0000e552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE552 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 88a82e9a2fe9dd008ecd19c2b3ea86318c0b5c073b292414a3f98e972b1e16f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BC 17308 bytes
SHA-256: c7615936b84ddfccbcdfaa9e2b4006bd62ab0d5c2ff755b13c571dab8d84896e