Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e33ba3cc6cccce3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-10-04 13:07:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bf76c3ba4979116a7f9e72d938965d85 SHA-1: 6dae7a0187a666559cdfe1e40dbc9573d70c9ed8 SHA-256: e33ba3cc6cccce3d8fafd9758f61529ba9f5208b3e08a093e83f56418ea860b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the PDF structure points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+two+three+four+five+once+i+caught+a+fish+alive+song
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/93342891304.pdf
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/030559287965.pdf
    • https://www.agcontraincendios.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safesimaxadag.pdf
    • http://freestyler.cz/img/file/xajutelitolamipaf.pdf
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/butiwelibifezupumuzuwuvu.pdf
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/verubadowolukepexox.pdf
    • https://unaizahic.com/Files/files/33483174342.pdf
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/14203361604.pdf
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be70f6c0d7b385888189d1684be4ca32/57018806205.pdf
    • http://sitarofindiamd.com/userfiles/file/5274851651.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d2e6f0f9f3abd85ce5e16ee49d52e42/88808014944.pdf
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/mabavozux.pdf
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38616527908.pdf
    • http://karmakonnect.org/DrumiBhatt/karmakonnect.org/Final/ckeditorimage/files/5787584366.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d6ffc48af3---50837182307.pdf
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/68629241727.pdf
    • http://logicamail.it/draft/media/tumubazedomulemixemepimas.pdf
    • http://siamintertrade.com/file_media/file_image/file/10171051677.pdf
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161542b1e90af5---12822742727.pdf
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/7609944172.pdf
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/vatidedufiloretuluz.pdf
    • https://ww150007.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210904081226.pdf
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/zobaneb.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba05.bin
eae8e278cb352c55dba67ab5e39529118034ead44471a4c28efaea639d974947
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA05 18920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaf7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001030e.bin
a1ab88197b6ca052a08152c84c2a14f339d682c49f6665b5de85980014967737
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030E 10892 bytes