Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24467f5840d136d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:46:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0db60998041d6ceaa92ae78dd0fd86d5 SHA-1: ed36f98e655c0fe50867a35b5580240d8c6ba5e8 SHA-256: 24467f5840d136d82cf01c81db6639f3ab795610ab8686a8962d1512e53742eb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may also attempt to trick users into calling a fraudulent support number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a980v4ml9ku3e5fmbt7s01vdp2/85863392132.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cozycornerexpress.com/uploads/files/pifufelagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/vipufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075597b744dd---79020122446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/lusenakixosodaladapige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/wivezutanefalajifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ff69996cc104a007990057489981932/63262319512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdac0c5be1a---kovujeronazasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckm-machinery.com/userfiles/files/43479524398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3adb10579f---rolaxupunese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f59573e6249f19ffbd393dbf50fa0ce/ganek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210725_81B08BF9B1F6B381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/94059441531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/79005813509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisusawevuvotemoverupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/8889547977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5a97cf1b2---55718916608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b73151e22c---luxodomijorirenomulaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///9328904489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb49eb16851---kixesaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/guselixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071444d0a4e7---rifurigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nli2bn1l20ciqa7sjoj8jo3pu7/65934106436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liderzy.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/23072903311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=gold%27s+gym+trainer+480+treadmill+manualPDF 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_off0000f153.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF153 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001096a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096A 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 16fe4445fda6a65b3f965845733c7dce5eeb1cb75a9cd488dbc3bbc956eade99
font_02_sfnt_off000123ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123CE 18600 bytes
SHA-256: 7bd2fad7a32183f2d3b2388b8be220d9e409b44d0e679172cc6c7826e07b6921