Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24407de6b7534cc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-07-24 17:46:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fd32aa72442b24cdb36fd17fc7893769 SHA-1: d88c04ffbcc41f382bc9b948ce76cf2540e6ca4e SHA-256: 24407de6b7534cc4faa5f06ca070a0afa85a8f66f2f52325a6676208096cd2d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a link farm used for malicious redirection or hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://airbays.com/userfiles/file/lonevir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4b291ba70a---momaxorasuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077670ee031e---joropikofinevosom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5a7854cae5---31603677754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3m84t6o26fbp0ofdna7pckvfi5/96733132512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/lenole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda1463622e8c2603e60d2310b1e3b00/ruvuporelosugaxolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ifdqj1ts555td7qcgqh2mhlcs6/99269257230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/40447657071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ead018dee8add35dd018b6eb66e1c9/pedevafumesoruwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e773c8c3026ad10e6b0ca71ebadcfed7/48364751147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e1a0cbff1ed2c4401f48ccbb108bc97/65697976385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf98f36d76---77146297079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834842cdb16---kijovebidaseraxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36642f3a0e69fb9066767064c19eeb4e/54415922067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/10860138365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d10bc3d1ae46b32245c30c7e1d34d38b/tizugagugopaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/sugibikasiwajebuvafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609c52645c270---42127577634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64c2932c2ca3b23bae8a7619a6807000/67034876756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/45214789756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/40223228150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/lupelebugedimakibepijepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a8b4daccea5816e84d97e316fd78e25/memibutuzubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+replace+joists+in+crawl+spacePDF 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_off0000dde4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE4 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 331baa4f9fdd427948c9fc5d64e6bad13e8d6f369614551cf9c88d65d43573cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f61c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61C 16952 bytes
SHA-256: ccb5bc7e28545b7788969b3f44f56b17d4c235b73d23bd2f94c2405f3416ead9
font_02_sfnt_off00012290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12290 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1