Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24742a25d8093f24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.4 KB Created: 2021-08-05 06:45:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 03a88f8e3cda75d7f24974046e91157e SHA-1: 24a175c1dd1c7f09bfe703be35f4b92bafd597c2 SHA-256: 24742a25d8093f2491ba9f459449d9b22ad7d4e95fc74b69e2482c55500b286a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and is identified as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for initiating malicious actions within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/rowefu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9afdd985b1---gexupobesefivuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63db6f1139---9699075156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31e65413ee---wuvofaxaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kis-u.com/page_data/file/20210529221638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/6923894812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://408of53crownstreet.com/assets/media/files/difibiduvagijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16214059645408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmtme7lcggof1bla8i27bkjrqj/pamemurotafemijolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/99353170627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2442e1b80---84130692875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ishvani.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexuxonuwoserip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnpair.com/userfiles/file/tibakirewolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/67566997338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/jamilabiduxepenevafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/fenutawojuxenujewosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/mivarisumuteju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fe8514c74---28047711423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17006063151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotokeramika.bg/userfiles/file/71438982007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f1dfed69e---59059577942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f45f78efc4---divewutawupesuzunovoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89b5389b3d---68670775225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c07c20305---lutufupimimokerexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=historia+del+movimiento+pentecostal+pdfPDF 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_off0001573b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1573B 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 82a3dbc1e5b4987b910084e6a478ed6833cf43c9a300516fe8bfddc85fd661b0
font_01_sfnt_off00017034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17034 18508 bytes
SHA-256: 5e7a07124223499fd76ab2b0e29b301b72fa1466962fec2b18f3c7614bcd5239
font_02_sfnt_off00019e8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19E8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1