Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f33fd90365e95499…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 04:49:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0b0a043edcc6a6c9d79a572372e7af58 SHA-1: 3d7666c6c6c2d169682bcf5f6d5568b21768579c SHA-256: f33fd90365e954992eb5032a1f1fb78401ad637662fe7411d8cbbf7d74079408
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of phishing or malware distribution attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/21245516273.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85254820048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc8e7002a4---10397887742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7208d9f37598ccff49e428c8caead012/83512175472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/pojikoritip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b19778170---fetejemizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/ripifizaguboximejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d48640f380---5168012175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609650a6ee96e---mababosazujureso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1960.com/clients/876325/File/vituguvagoxidimumevofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e07591ca3bc---32642035008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/43609300835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878ef1d4bfd---29319565439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/morewibiwuwosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cedee5735---wukuwezepibemalavegefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa615b914a2---26367287385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a7363ba4034284524ea106aaeaf7878/79786407262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/fukagagagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetachikappasigmaalumni.org/clients/5/56/56ac51e2ee760b54d3ff8b7d53c877b7/File/mologemuwixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelesherrinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29009749466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbinsfamilyhealthcare.com/clients/2/2c/2c787fa606fc56c3a3a24dfc5409695f/File/56318905183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poraxorezuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074db510f15d---58585190124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=electric+field+due+to+a+circular+discPDF 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_off00010359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10359 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 60f7aeaca6e186f48ee2a77a556317bb8baf318a2255a4ac61cfcd7fdd4b74d1
font_01_sfnt_off000130bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130BD 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 967e5de738c5f7c0278a0f08efa645485aba60ad66eb91f1469c402d2929e8ca
font_02_sfnt_off00014893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14893 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1