Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 024f61c8f8559dff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-05-21 15:08:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: e763576d953b00cf231b43f0b047039e SHA-1: 90f7d14bb16cf9abdfd258606e8048e10b27d486 SHA-256: 024f61c8f8559dff03da0b717c5d29a5448751ee19ed7a3b1fec44a806f15283
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as phishing and a trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or distribution point for malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for a free PDF download, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608009ed64f7f---23163855850.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077dac233251---77179797294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/05/18/file/20210518_064346_109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ar1kham6utv1g0rgivq28nhv2t/dezupetapebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609824c5ac796---8057061884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/mamajotixuxonuvupenasaxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07eace5b924a92210257cf77fb2a1026/4253003159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bcab70553---zirinomukamuliwujosuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/soxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc1ebdc00e---zeluvunimixolufezupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/15703985661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7ce064a15---45392191758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15a2146712215b6d3a0838270c13e971/sinikogovolekasororejej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/bodeliwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11j76u4f5jubhl4sv2scmqmj22/40042568894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607725047c938---wofuxinekawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807715d77a0---fedoxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=highland+ever+after+maya+banks+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCDD 5872 bytes
SHA-256: 6a6f01068fe21b9be7ab3fca4a55928300229e4d2879d93a02833ab5a7723401
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C9 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 6e92df52b121acf3c652da523d0816f40f1be4d517cebb3586cbe126322f3aa5