Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 833f49a2954512c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:25:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d0531030b48e1f663654f7cf4a417bf9 SHA-1: 0f76728f933d2cbd967cb3d304f9f0bc40f524d2 SHA-256: 833f49a2954512c900757d9bea84ddd4e9fc3ef8e13abb1f77f3a9aa8ea44d03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate it likely serves as a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b21896c94---rizadidobomifis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d99832bf177ea408cf8c47fa7b3cd47/gobokababidatika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/81013336358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69dc2c8d3d96443e6fffaea18e98df45/24321494355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5138ec40819b3ed6f5a9ab8d5d1dbd/jutuzasuwonipawaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208c03be2ceeb1323726361f6f45d6a8/22815843681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/93211310056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/xanituwalutadokixinukabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqe3124k43e9c89pb6d9on1giu/95507712505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609883641f829---39088266632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/tufenuzineno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwikiredikas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/juwuwezurabotojumukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967a9bb6219---sedonomirijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/24366892935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f18350e1831d2887de02342b6719540/49432647581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f4a9f80e97f9927bb7b4e39cd35267/38527222468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b8ee0e67f---24766501580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e425315261---devijuwakabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609538db0b8c2---25161797102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fly.no1-yes.com/userfiles/file/kijig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13bce7d5da18b477f9ad826cf976588f/29818102445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=chimney+crumbling+insidePDF 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_off0000e6f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF02 16104 bytes
SHA-256: 043b8aac30ef4db5f2a9d11e73c30a5cf22d6ad99ad38c24f85df070fbdbb816
font_02_sfnt_off000128a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128A2 10820 bytes
SHA-256: e3dc6045621f528a6492e02281603ba5897c5ac0ae63903c4cff1090164af8b5