Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fad33289e535fa8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cee1d24901f5dcc01a581a73427dae89 SHA-1: c528ff49c9e0db45b54e4320b0c7d37032cf9434 SHA-256: fad33289e535fa8ab5803dbe0c0cad7a5fd9337ccbc71c1fad6db63d23ae8307
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The presence of a URL with a 'watch howl's moving castle' UTM term suggests a lure to entice users to click on malicious links. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, likely due to its structure and embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+howl%27s+moving+castle+english PDF link annotation
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1b168c1e4---temazujireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/lumebobukuzuninolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d116cf029adbbcb994594f8c2cf4cc45/82945154382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l610rf124tlb7n2c18ee72m8ie/kufubagubukurodiberokowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f52cfa4bce1d51a963d8f8cb36ab6963/38045314390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/zipuwatosezafolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stromzeleny.cz/file/fukanafofumilevibububi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f355aaaf9274745286d1460773605fdf/68956091005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afae4b4f5f8---tigimisaroxigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feb4d63daa94bdb257088ca07ae56ac7/wakelavirusigokamisibuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fb4b0a701---tazapebiwesapigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266f95011638b1b0ac784d72e9a3ad4e/49694578858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e45e0f932a6bfd49958a9b3cd0cc56b8/lujuwakiwivizuralefeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffa7fa814bc158a8e15442c215f7442c/jozapinenavukisolizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6852644df2---91502232955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zijupivomezubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/rolalizinidimefulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca9987412b9787f80d092ff5a59e46f4/27438644808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2962c48004---34927105459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/17552765377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0227eb6f5d3a1d43b709409670654f2/bumokunapepibipovoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/gunobasovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8a9704d6941c0a83e4a207cbea4a894/tenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbot9jfrm7pa0ksqjvif1b1lf0/paribaravomikoxarasuk.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_off0000f72b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF72B 20464 bytes
SHA-256: 8510acf77e02d6bc51e9040284b1866cd518a2d312673f86f88e06632ddb81b6
font_01_sfnt_off00012c3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14451 10756 bytes
SHA-256: b5ecf3bcaa844a6be1e80a35d0c15f8eabadec9754795b2f8c1b182da2cc72fa