Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b33af335e6bdf7d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 06:18:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b24a714d29a58f3e98026864910cf5ef SHA-1: ed574d6e6ca56d64ca11730b7df1e4a06bde0cac SHA-256: b33af335e6bdf7d7d26ff2250656a430e5c32ba78f3e36696243c15c7d4dbf51
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document's structure and heuristics indicate it's likely a phishing attempt to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 1 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb5f1c5614---bunujolopet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vakoplus.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubijatikedeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e036061672---marowubotibigofimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/zojogevuvuxozome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khonggianmang.com/upload/files/zunenikuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/ruzomukokupawiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnhomdinhhinh.net/uploads/files/tovadamatamazekesuxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/tewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkrgs4uvq2uuj41hogoon7h2bi/vupunepanubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/kakojexutulokegefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/nulufavufododisubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/16828555986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/14359956394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109170750513437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311ed85df6c---samemegovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindatpeace.us/uploads/files/rinajemowupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/zegisomezajekifusumak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/xufilojifowuvajupidadez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/59481392016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozilasavozacem.rs/files/zerefotitibavopawame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/dalerogavokefojivijugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80091508406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b9239a70a---22673725355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136944324748---60543111799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=catcher+in+the+rye+pdf+with+chaptersPDF 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_off0000b0a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8B7 14436 bytes
SHA-256: 826d3e7f61b457a6e6af00699af8db5e5e67ca98c7e2a4a61475d8d81bee2196
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAB 10780 bytes
SHA-256: a3c478f160fff1645304329c140fe243276da7e872663c4a9c54ce5f0cc64064