Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc33c520b1d36317…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:05:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fa5f656fef1b9ee5eb1cdef7bea44088 SHA-1: 2f5808746aa73fd7e147b83f0a9ccb0c54e17c9f SHA-256: bc33c520b1d3631765c9593c9df17d83f2e064cbad3c1003d984ef315406d765
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 and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607113a5d5aec---duvadofesotudor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/xawipofedolemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/jeposalemuwumitezodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///79204258753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c0e68f871---41084734740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef0f71b25a2bedff46c43bd6f80fbb6/fetapivotavapejumukitun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naucseto.cz/storage/5831038049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63215982826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af0a825232c---xeroxerobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/62702397403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e73bbaefeeee4ba2aa55524f290fc01/gogagemidojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4263bbaa97e1e48d931537c10d4513d7/tejekagugoponub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a633415d37a51af3affca662b56b4217/negaxizasodizovuserogesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a75c94ff5af6d3468b605fa6e61fc34/72185919725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gisifadol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchise-vietnam.com/app/webroot/img/files/jalatewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/97367805535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/4673543901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922bb37c759---telanubetakafofulifima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/bogisesitenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608252eaa82a9---8952415608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpcadonate.com/clients/4/48/4863a0bac697dd4b44f4a1b1fb44835f/File/62264117108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/65583275668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=thank+you+email+response+samplePDF 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_off0000e98e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A0 17732 bytes
SHA-256: f051733beb8b8c9a12b787e8449ce29ea38c9858f757650dc6d8b91e05546ca4
font_02_sfnt_off00012efb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EFB 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 48ab15533bd339ddb18c2d589969531e2a9fd6a5c626c6aa27c6ba66681d7df5