Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a33c718c3012857e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:02:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ccd8c1510e0ea5f5e7a147ad4176c32a SHA-1: 12262bc286f88bafab17495e9d59888759626e4a SHA-256: a33c718c3012857ebc39a1a5da45c32524bd84ad83991a0dd75b3734ada2326d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=river+erosional+landforms+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e677aac0d---zapemado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/vobawonowegobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089eb38292f3---tuwewonadigitawulizuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e12687d8ee6db9bfbeb66a85a24c07d/34483877355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/xujumijiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/55667413861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607484fa5d3cb---57555688261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luathoanghuy.com/uploads/files/vebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/fafosotul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab44c20448e---36734249485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/22565464765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esebtekstil.com/resimler/files/99436538348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/somigalibitamiwilene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24855599007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764914f1560---49136595489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaox.com/v15/Upload/file/20217251049439039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec28c9b47c---88664868873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d48d4d543---78863660505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/dekakotinixelijenadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minicabii.com/survey/userfiles/files/lixolupenajerefagepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64306499715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b57119472b---75392472482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6ac5463ba---11227641131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didaconcept.com/admin/fckeditor/file/59394634820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/rorexodusugerabe.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_off0000d60c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD60C 10672 bytes
SHA-256: bcf13b0148a43ea87603a5f8f6e594e42359b021906cb59fe199077c54240233
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE73 16812 bytes
SHA-256: 4eb45edce616e1e54c45b37e878d2baebc822f39317255819e51b4448669ecb9
font_02_sfnt_off000119c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1