Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e33c2582441d0692…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:49:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6835d4b60af50f7c5fb3492ef95a3572 SHA-1: 4d93a8efa1f249c5aa414dc500833a2410963fd4 SHA-256: e33c2582441d0692bd0ab9e2e11d6a7b3c2ad49d0abdd7da75a4f7a81b3a2542
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, each hosting another PDF file. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of multiple PDF files hosted on compromised CMS upload directories suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content, likely as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 5

  • 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://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/249ff1d67c6c7d84891ea5134893438c/zilabuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcdc126bc2926d628c35ae4d66fad9a4/mififepirexegilimolik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a28921e63c---fubizidibap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68dc54ddbcc866adb29f8c201b83238f/1697333069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee14625361---84700936976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d1299986ca94501631694c43d56835/75750907579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87733a2d47aab8eef3904f6af7090b83/balejujefifawobusoriropuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsl48qi4i4ghg6hkqrsvjso1e5/nuxewuserize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607302e3f3ffb---51682388065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0edb76b468---78483972809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac268c1284b---13614066605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cefvqerd7e05icrac53r0f8ops/96026913569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/37272556167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/sijufoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/27982382762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2b1ad6d67---56166386013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kt3p642r6mr2jti08dbguhrkc0/mupefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d236cc3438228020a7c025afc96914a/soputujuxevifazaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6a9psj60pt4ibcshbj92ttpf9/6891928365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b442517e32c---mejevologuxupulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a99b462fc---94245053156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggduadhr348iarto59kt9pnal3/93478387841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pf2e34ka85v70noklo6ubm4m3/lazavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/60495062314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/xesugirisiroguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+death+valleyPDF 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_off000135f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014e09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E09 9904 bytes
SHA-256: 1b63ba93984c5c537ff146fdb7e4f1fe326b15948bee2249c98a136d445828e6
font_02_sfnt_off0001640b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1640B 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 46ac23e827d3ff8d7e5060a1368345a5f2fbcdf6741ca9f7db2bbd1987c1f941