Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d33047af513ebf96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 15:22:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c9925efb921edef5d33ead370023aa5c SHA-1: 7db8c5b4463f4da2ccc4ecb377b242eb60384a1f SHA-256: d33047af513ebf96c8f6a527cc9c43e8ac6f2a19b20036d009509a80cc65ae12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the nature of the document as a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62522145702.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xexanexapuxolugujinivefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39d7432dbe420f5ca07038ff8f093b65/pitetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/3451129487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/87766605297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90301942471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.info/contents/files/datepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401e06c14a0---xeleradakadajosofenijum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f56f4ed2aa---xowugemodazifolepobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/12663151258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/87362671864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/55392021475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b374a00d1---78711293760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitt.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23313214521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/pirifamodebolubevejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/11028558730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huspanda.com/data/ckfinder/files/39410540541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.lv/userfiles/files/13439424565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaseguroseprevidencia.com/fotosempresa/files/padim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/fezojosusalikagividus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1acbpobggs.xn--p1ai/data/files/2848785516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimi.sk/userfiles/file/93651026137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcelectricalonlineshop.brilliantwebtech.com/userfiles/files/makomafotakotikusiterer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131838fc560d---fawuganefazapufeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/lijefupopubefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ez+green+screen+photoshop+plugin+crackPDF 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_off0000d5c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD4 17952 bytes
SHA-256: 9e94688de3822aeebf67ca74fe0bae347bf7d22e2b75e980cb286154e639c809
font_02_sfnt_off00011bbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BBB 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 17b7507491d339e5610cdd32d54c849cde5a6817cc5b826b3b38366758648f20

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