Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00f24e6feedd8041…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:46:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 198cbb79efcccbbef5df09cfa081e990 SHA-1: 25017df5b348cafc9bbcfe8f13bb5d0d82e318c4 SHA-256: 00f24e6feedd804131d451b512e33725a93fc553c7d7888b975b434c49920c43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate a 'link farm' pattern, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external malicious sites. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a phishing or malicious redirection attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=data+structures+and+algorithms+adam+drozdek+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/19708700446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66367577348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/purexurejogerosibonoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/dorukebuzukulotamufodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoaga.com/documentos/file/77792018316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vcvscr.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/21946684127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starma.pl/files/file/lotenel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimmerei-possert.at/28624186232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/58271290987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image/files/94678874823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/41498866067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138639863faf---xotelexiwagurukapobuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/jebofajuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134bd34ab536---68526924379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thaiahpa.com/flash/files/14604095033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/39823181914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142d466cf9d1---33990542048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renhedc.com/uploads/files/202109091025112393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohk9assnfqpg96qr01qd9heb65/fifefiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/junotila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtijsr.com/userfiles/file/6179286534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/8508218389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spadhotel.com/basefile/spadhotelcom/files/80751713766.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_off0000d1d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1D1 17832 bytes
SHA-256: acd209077d2b70453b6ffd96c48b72bf5ba37e14143d2976c6a30bbb01cf9731
font_01_sfnt_off000100df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F6 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 09e6f93ec0340d6fe82ab2c909744085486d93a987ef55109b2eca1e346fc565