Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0033794981a9372…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fc0a728354f12b9063e839a0da28a791 SHA-1: 1956631e8e7cfbc55faabf4276324407e2b0006b SHA-256: e0033794981a937282f30cf72be49779ea082798e26410c85cd4753722e62f1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct content, but the presence of numerous external links strongly implies an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+sports+sites PDF link annotation
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/zedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/selivufudugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a28ed101368f740c55493288f4179e/midojonofabijaridefimun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210911063733370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corse.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59871161754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redondoclassicburger.com/uploads/files/88273738197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/33056894373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sausalito.com/wysiwygfiles/file/20435146933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614679aba2920---45532894611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/937c5e309d559aa2c902fd29f034fe15/67568224879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/tidad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rescue119.org/userfiles/file/pezupivositixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/besemebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camdohungdung.com/upload/files/89461420488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2cc729df77da0c7b2d966547822835/nazawiduzijuvumiwabigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/vakodenubinifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/76292340734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/29679867714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-soft.ru/site/htmlimages/file/pasevenonuziditiguto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/52769297259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jdfianmhq25flrfi4olqh40jv/1500695750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkatanagariksammelan.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64970441193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/544176435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kujainspectors.com/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/kemejibexisokira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalwonders.com/uploads/files/dokisowilezo.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_off0000dd03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD03 10092 bytes
SHA-256: b771f177080c68c484bce3b0f6eaa78db28c9f206bf2953d201795ea96dff85e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A5 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 7794982c3d0ee5e36975c123d72b3bae710b85320abd30f04dfd1272855fa4c7
font_02_sfnt_off00012141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12141 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1