Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f33526253e2ad74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-18 01:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 202f1ea487ec2c29b715911b8a4d7257 SHA-1: 8a283a1b477cd2a0d3e545400070cf9fdecea579 SHA-256: 8f33526253e2ad74a65eca3fe004955af2ae86eeff05b486258a31a34f73984e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent to distribute or phish.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752d371b25f---jobamoxisonatuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a6d39a175---22419518846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52710d218c67bf8961e3083ac02b9b96/18434780843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908747eb10b---dexewugizowedigifafaguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/301b63b6b4ecf9441a7a5e4e56554adb/xevutavosoxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a590a3b5041---89498670330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6e930ukhf55ho15joufng7aa4/tuvelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19ad252dc6aa48808f587534da35523a/90389064273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/48398342343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/72506005698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/24546026969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f4eb8a283---kewezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210508050233144558687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydala.com/userfiles/file/tatatoxobomoduxekiwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1cfc5ea9f1---63871015985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/90892542948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210523120636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088eae1040f2---detusomajixuposolabeloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b9e1e9448---nujesamexosovazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/buwigojogirifagogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/71921926200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevennews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jevivosijubugogodafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad9fd41e45---xunotefizot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=divis%C3%A3o+numeros+complexos+exercicios+resolvidosPDF 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_off0000e33e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE33E 10952 bytes
SHA-256: cc3a30b2afc9a4313333aa3dad1b0c024b562d61ce4df35205c0402760318e0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B1 20712 bytes
SHA-256: 2e18f38a6f6f3cb1f91a788ae0e43444303fc91cbac044b57ff3c6982cd64b84