Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24241aa0e208f33f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:46:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1cffafff1a7f9b464a21229b830a5dc1 SHA-1: e456778ff1ee8a1dba88ac97dff3b87ff39e0732 SHA-256: 24241aa0e208f33ff477e4f93bde2b206520730f3f37210f8644b8d2c0590cde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards an attempt to exploit users via malicious links, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=who+sank+the+boat+pdf
    • https://thegioibaobicarton.com/Images_upload/files/4922392026.pdf
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/rivomepedu.pdf
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdc29d8272---mogomojamagiboramujufom.pdf
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/fiwopumirovenurepagijoma.pdf
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f021d4b1e0---nodigagosuguw.pdf
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c6tmlika5d0k276dnmq8rd4fm/kudiwimuvikewamar.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b353228158---64325929904.pdf
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/70031553706.pdf
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c621e494e---gazutuzipugugulaledik.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f56eb636237ee47d14cb466e26bd35e4/22459586288.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2ba474975---nudiwijesoxulakiwovok.pdf
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/xabawufoganabibunoxisir.pdf
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/39273375421.pdf
    • http://edwardlankin.com/clients/86087/File/43156552168.pdf
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969d929caed---vamamenelizodep.pdf
    • http://missinternationalbeauty.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/xefojakotugujusixilo.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14d8334c62---jilububorobuxukofud.pdf
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc2bf2388d---31270746899.pdf
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/59844668526.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a64b783a9a---78382957493.pdf
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/47571163658.pdf
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/88629569515.pdf
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/39488277496.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5d5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde7.bin
b9a1131d4292cfa941524f38bd8e8b7f46c9ca51f0140ef7240a98a78afcbd7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE7 17284 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b2c.bin
7b4444d05dd6c13c2c812a3c85d6e3f7ebd31d018d3b6aed241b0441c9bd11f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B2C 10580 bytes