Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e33c51fd03db174…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:24:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 116cc258eab6938fa86341b457d6c02f SHA-1: 17cab986c769b44a9a56b1cc29c82e4e5d49f66b SHA-256: 8e33c51fd03db17485258d46415f46c006d8ea381f1b554cf79386172f0074d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate a phishing or trojan payload delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dba646d1a03d73b871aa619d6b4064e/54123887877.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec428257b25---dasizonasek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6fjib6achaqj3r9b1hj8lftr1/nebejiwojiwamosopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4q32r7ht2c80fpgm3e9uson5jg/15265208441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/judubudulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ec9dd6700---99127759946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d54beb788b1---wunoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40ecb9052a84c30081254fe9e07422f4/tunodosuvalesidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/jubezajutativa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6f46bf455---rabopesurevisojizejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtylek.pl/Upload/file/bedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherdallo.com/file/71248501381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732a4baeabb---kulobejifele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886ca7b36c1---50810042609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75f5ea0a06072de9163ff98e275b462f/30851222971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/2105090147038513918t05j9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e88582ff0517c4543d3522dc342d28e3/11509768545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yptea.com/data/fckeditor/files/49784663767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/fobidaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generale-bureautique.fr/gdb/files/file/nonogojujonafiboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102b389a9eb0---48075083904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designpavelzapletal.cz/files/file/kufutufarudowibasutubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/femepabujoduwanupolexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slippersymposium.com/clients/875641/File/wovuxulasozum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/16816610472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xezimozugiwuzavaxeratirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd33a090ba4---pufenagosarizopevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=spelling+ccvc+words+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000c335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC335 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB47 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 4a492263815f01f21d708a41e7dd38dd7b9d24925ec7a07662bdb357185a386e
font_02_sfnt_off000107c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C6 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 16aef6c24e52ad70a5d7e22cffe1ef16fa35f2a4d3db859d407bb1cdfab7ad2f