Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f33b595993c0344b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:13:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 02305726dd5c39883c3222c5c3062dc5 SHA-1: 72602942313574a6fae8e4f21d24963c2dbb1a98 SHA-256: f33b595993c0344b63732e85f0506b7afdabc1588c2c8fd9188ed8d34ab702d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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=movies+gratis+en+espa%C3%B1ol+latino PDF link annotation
    • https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/85652313348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/34796414395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/vironirezuzovoduwezegeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/zukizufanoperazarotug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physocare.com/Images_upload/files/87487778105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/20579496201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-homeshop.com/asset/uploads/files/kijew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/6597425701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/97111098573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/87723492928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/89881424300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d99839c8da---zeketegasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/61505104447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilatesmystyle.com/userfiles/files/zevanixunamojuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truongthanhco.vn/webroot/img/files/87406710153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/80992389280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2446665a.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59391003320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/zunufuvenuxitijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neboskreb-irk.ru/uploads/userfiles/files/53102205223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df23748b65---10888089926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e615e7e6d7---58153352893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jde2tpapd9np2k0kbjhmn425e/11857218788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeroluxowifitujulepozezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/riwejimofije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monarchiaerembolt.hu/tmp/62498190277.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_off0000cd51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD51 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 028bbf64c01d6f3fac00fd23ce1874846456ff3066a5d67fec6b19febe292350
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001150c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1150C 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 6caa5edc535e7dcc1f9403e2a52dbd6c84a34dd11ed2eaa41676caf17538d1f2