Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24362270050938e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 02:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d78bfc8e05410751811ea64cd6ea33d1 SHA-1: 2f38aca34a6abfb66fe59f930eae8e45df8cde99 SHA-256: 24362270050938e7cf0dab81f5cb639eced1c159ad21625987d46b397d6933a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious or phishing content, likely as a first stage of a phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/slvomttq3dmcani6avmsuhtpsk/fegilibide.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megeganiliraseboxizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/57331994926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925f4000ca2---poxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/901b9067e3641c07cb05174d83be3553/mupipisosotamesebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tropo-design.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/lenegoxatobugiwafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/xevixuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73030d11b71fda14ce41c0de4c21e4b2/dokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19908156a371aaef46bcea2180df4eab/36833859513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1tle8144jqpidhauiqbp8nkth/82276441475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56c6d1461c72288d965c6834917a77f7/tiwusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5472ec7784---5321547032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9s76p2fhcov58dvo4471atfgb/98877408441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751c478f279---jibaridekipubetosojasuvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d67369bb10d---30617024716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fitewar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/86879374080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/annb5vabkpmmmr5u79nj23ln1j/41981345735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734a087ca45---46217331804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reinforcingourheritage.com/clients/0/08/0860c2a235168fe7e4a745c824023bdd/File/jelowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608857b63483a---43423128592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/visumamexaselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607129b263e8f---25862921442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=apps+to+chat+with+random+peoplePDF 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_off0000eb38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB38 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 6ea343cc1005cd02b0b1e80c0f0fdc1e678eedc5529da2645eadb4b237488686
font_01_sfnt_off00011862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11862 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13079 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 6442ea14c582810a4155a75c161bbb5f1c48f2880f52e048b965ebfe892ac44b