Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24079428380978cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.6 KB Created: 2021-06-20 05:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: e578b656e04249123ec1b8ee707eda08 SHA-1: 30dbee0df34e29642c6ad800629951ba170d8d68 SHA-256: 24079428380978cbff9e755b0bbe05a59c643364d192d8002cb9058065f494ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a lure to download further malicious content, potentially for phishing or scam operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db1fcd84b952fe5469c7ad2150dd81b2/poduge.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ff371d6b9c0283eb036898540ffd310/vofisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c7adb98a7---81943638255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbc2af77e2fef69be1084e60f316e510/35774960942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/fozugebogeritefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e054659e2---datavejuwigevamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510215625682653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/timobevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/160b90863290b7e449125a13d381d6a6/zefezalonalivelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/54233695025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b857c046f3f---43534615333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607256ebc20e5---bakojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aed46081bbdf64f4e69855676d5daf31/pobexizuwejejer.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/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=griego+1+bachilleratoPDF 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_off0000ae0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE0D 5108 bytes
SHA-256: aa134627a1cd41aae6c406e6b2ad09da561f2f8a89bbc8a2e377ea8cec93d900
font_01_sfnt_off0000bf72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF72 9980 bytes
SHA-256: ab9f5a4d136e38f23c6d394d7aa9fa8587e0c27e1545a2c9542f0adac925b4b2