Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24012ea647f105fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-23 11:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2aabd9523c2dff030023521a08cece5d SHA-1: b19b8e5a919c365ae505d0b82fb82a2ac711cba7 SHA-256: 24012ea647f105fba361b33f86645bb20ae3cc36ac5e7c257d6a50df9454b3c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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 http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611cf4a36a26d---13839966474.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928d416bba33f119d7c312add32ce676/xujadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/vamuziximifif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/zomozesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/gadanuzunuwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/7330181220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/590822b338c0d573983db84a7e5555d5/60653534323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yung-shun.com/userfiles/file/bamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/49480806887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/453022610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a7cp72ssgas79al4vkikonv75/jarabibizuzederenisexosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a7580551b---23739832212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/bonodizewujumojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridagreatescape.com/media/file/6650676362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77651215966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watchimport.eu/userfiles/file/11633220640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/veputowumunirexadopezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shropshirefurniture.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabironamomoboduzorebezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/woxokopugofopixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/rufamadutonafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/40519141530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/14496227874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/07/files/210729172930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d56bb72f183b60f78b882ceb189a49a/59229952473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=obs+cannot+connect+to+serverPDF 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_off0000df05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF05 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 8c69db05eb1a3758e8f8a214c6f95135d8dff64513af4d40eb42988ee8381cfe
font_01_sfnt_off00010dbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DBE 10316 bytes
SHA-256: a1614d82a2ad6df417d9114197ccea36abf5c88f3148b41f20f5a3b38d50e474
font_02_sfnt_off00012544.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12544 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1