Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24558b2435f4a755…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:06:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 32e8550018fada1f52ea121fb3ae182d SHA-1: 23bc46d4683ee6de632b9773bce2ad4f5b1ccd35 SHA-256: 24558b2435f4a7552d780b3dbccfab406846b320b59278e242fe5781ee1ef165
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the primary function is to redirect the user to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=everyday+is+a+winding+road+sheryl+crow+lyrics PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--b1adrijbbb.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/tuzozepanupumenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alusol-kw.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68218315486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaseguroseprevidencia.com/fotosempresa/files/5056514589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0898.com/userfiles/file/20210623232032_mzx5lk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087239b92f9b---jojofavomesezijegulimewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/sonisoliguvuzuzagefibupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisewood50th.com/clients/3/35/35ca2b70ae131fa39667c240906a3fe4/File/vovuzawazorobegiraniloge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33f4e3640f6d5711be397eb9d70f610c/terevafidinolexime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/022f01facb737a8fc2ee01cd7d1c2ac0/pokakaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/gevosilabowolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/gorevojurikilemumadus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106cafd6f6a2---27417892521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/xuzixoxupubetosozupise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdshg.com/images/upload/File/39887748916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/60268886365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760a6daeb9f---dapowaxula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe2eb01706---50994859017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labsshop.com/d/files/71633245656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b51573ee1c9b04dba3d18e3454cf875/10000584368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.douggoodkin.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lujuzobulexuvumasudima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89ad9526a3532360b2dba58e75495027/8191550330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/43315848008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083168b56a77---bezamexekasukaruraxoxesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/jebirirufosagomefibeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huntland.hu/upload/file/jubikejuverixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d4e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E9 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 0ce95b31547d9f866f9e6a1aa0f96daba0d5828e86cac3306d183238422dae94
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8C 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 1f2546b8e8d148ea857a51128aae60b58812cc8e9dc3f36e5ecbf7359f78f013
font_02_sfnt_off00011b03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1