Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c33d4a712b5039b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 05:26:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2d2bea943b36cd62bd5ac3ec89aba523 SHA-1: 2f93642fef88fd79ac6f0ea0e40168b0e39e2ac3 SHA-256: c33d4a712b5039b32dc26aa0b50a92b2714a50a9dfc9f43491783f9a06cc6047
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings strongly indicate a phishing or SEO spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+things+they+carried+short+story+summary PDF link annotation
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf1d7d084c---vojaworisujovagewamovivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/zeresuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guinyardfamilyreunion.com/clients/62985/File/63618422181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37e3f43cf0df9486d5bf6ac3cd43a5b/tejusibixazotowudasogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sea-cruise.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakufamiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f41a4ab7e9820b767b658f3c5669d1b1/77698719822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanosoft.mn/images/content/File/vivizofuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c59623412947b1fd5697814df14787ac/59379739144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092818186aa7---92191841832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb7c4b9a62---wogodilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607794d3e7882---41811240364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/50423535713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f580edb7481ea828242eb54493f5099d/zizabajavoxetetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607590091f283---67508937663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///60287398067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c5021fded---puxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f322435e4c---ziruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/gekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/gegifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/xodapaxisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/tujomevozukolirajala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb5a493432---23503672993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b717b953db3---jixuwomofagukunibawoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/63033439134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/62663046640.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_off00010352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10352 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B69 10948 bytes
SHA-256: ae67db64c12e202b536a7a710711febccb0b6785db2619956bba08a379662c6d
font_02_sfnt_off00013476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13476 16672 bytes
SHA-256: a7f8e467172e9fd6e430b4e40f274397ce5948b2d0b83a207037507961ab8ba1