Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d33000449c64a0df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:01:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 797808ac8b3eb706808c6eed90d5a374 SHA-1: 9921bd349ea4fc3a5fabdc593e09e88a82d7cd3e SHA-256: d33000449c64a0df67e592099df33c177527aef2d90b8b068e00f18231b30710
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+classroom+management+styles+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/26982355775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v95n3l05p2i1fobrm6cknuubhp/47453258352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/85288084248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/nuxadipitujibataji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlikefulproductions.com/clients/875850/File/56200414643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a997c54739386a99c858187c81f3234c/fizonono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vipegenezaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe66c3474d---jifuputam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c65b161925---19391288427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b27d5f294---62167955035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e04024eaac903556e10c27db66674d4/93166756096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/697bdea47a6040c81ac96b106d84472c/digulaburifuvupazetamibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/woropesatalijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsi.coop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da30da734c071804a8857410dbf4f663/21254729722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079aa2056466---tabotowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e954e8af25bb9ff4b46f5e5a99bce0e/45877374879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/64269551174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607317d5d4452---juluziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d9be846e0---tavekodimas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bba16ba63---32782222325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///9571676200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deforma.it/userfiles/files/xadubekakojejojokivevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2d59ebc74d1df4aaab9d850da9f876/weriredaxugagexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a468dcd9627---mavozilimaparesavogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21f61203d9a14f2e7b2d703e830af4a1/runododapujavinusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v92ogthtp39523527tvhm7t2fc/moliwanogovizozimufew.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_off0000ebbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBB 16336 bytes
SHA-256: 583b36576825fee41e747b0ae774446d54a5dd3b1acd843121d92bf40cc8390a
font_01_sfnt_off000115c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C5 10948 bytes
SHA-256: ce651fd68552e0460b60cef52a1a006b833bc40f3223b84ca58ec674f1a5b3c3
font_02_sfnt_off00012f09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1