Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f33a6676e80ca8f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-06-15 20:10:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 42fcb5ef5dfc169ed3507eeaeb790194 SHA-1: 7eda39669af73186f60b7c697e5300458db59776 SHA-256: f33a6676e80ca8f986d8aeac76ea316dd8676cc44fca8ad306bf2a94fc198862
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'wilderness survival activity' which likely serves as a lure to entice users to click on the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wilderness+survival+activity PDF link annotation
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac050bcc12b---63796350850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14fuj21sd4j2ee1qfv6iq152ds/74030620914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f4f3kbu3ql9u5bbm1oa341obg/dobaziwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55eae41eb1---52414036917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74519679404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blesk-stroy.ru/userfiles/files/pojakixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f2e6da6597675280a3ff798202500eb/wuxajubemutalulave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c7533089c---xosetedamojivosenonawemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/letorepunapadojote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/57734474088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/7950495543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/bekugiwejijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/diburepajezeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5656a0c080---nuxububuzikami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/84900095206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/13896327968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085df708c687---bimuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C4 5108 bytes
SHA-256: c0add1bb09bbcea88d4db596f0415ac6970c6d28a88e9b468d274cf5bdc511cc
font_01_sfnt_off00010743.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10743 11212 bytes
SHA-256: dfa865d9f7cdfa8c3a2c780d227bd6848f27003f33f8ca4bbacded9ea22a4e5e