Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a333f0ecce7146ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:49:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5ecc8a98f85e279d1b013eb0b2eeb0bd SHA-1: ad5af57cac7926710325d66041aa8bed88f00d21 SHA-256: a333f0ecce7146ef2adfc545424e849f45c5146821f5ba183e1043d8148257da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs on compromised sites and the overall structure point towards a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb4071f2338---42396695503.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/45246374068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e188738e6f---sobagoxuwuradugipafibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/senasoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://npkfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/xawariwudesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102c9868a2ac---sitezafajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b93a2b765---86240071590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsilver.kr/files/fckeditor/file/1181196454611a68b28abba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukdae.com/files/fckeditor/file/30594957467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758a8040ef7---18521447092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nv32kgdf3i3skbpeoiqc40guej/36166443080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25016246175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastindiaspray.com/suvra/eastindia_spray/files/jobijitimesopuxexasawuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/256e5b4ee4aa0dc9c9550353f91991eb/96942400769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/68792515240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/gazunujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f26f7cb9b---xuwarikobara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161180f84826e7---ruluzibome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1096e9a67f672e70ed828aa833ed8e27/dupovinafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd8b2cc62c---17889284596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/39816317051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097aee4f35cb---87645436944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/55739668689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6a991cd72faf5a96f11c74d68ba01e4/sukirutaxikapusosesunejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0crk2vt9q7krvo75o5gvbf0ta3/73223953321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=variations+in+construction+pdfPDF 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_off0000db27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB27 10504 bytes
SHA-256: f3b237be2e1d66c8aaf3d035d10f3ed74ecc2a3a66540e63dd244125c1d20c7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f32e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B40 16180 bytes
SHA-256: ac9fe4a3023e5895e20ec4d9d3b172221d99f3bcca1062ff0ff239654dd4a4b1