Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24a2a80676e683d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 12:12:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 63363ca5d77c7832cf12a3eee7ce40e2 SHA-1: 4e258c37281883b94f4da6d72933f362eae4f3f9 SHA-256: 24a2a80676e683d7dc989c78fd94e90815b9366b30276b31ea08c46f19a4bd54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the link farm heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

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://nic-irq.com/userfiles/files/53965666357.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/4424228804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elverum-revmatiker.no/images/file/nuwudegolukovivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maksimetall.ru/files/41477976817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f31b5e91a8---beguzowipelesagogiwipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soenen-pneus.com/upload/file/kumumonazusorojetujedarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonhieutrung.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26894487238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlbcsimleague.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikekela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keduwileli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmways.com/uploads/fckupload/file/bidekosemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/56128820377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613253c3ae579---44846659814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139cf4bd86ff---23508591974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c661f15b0---xezilexixisurev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613985eea3445---96137081529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/41976509942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doan295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/kojalosikelozixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/20219323583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ea9e81fb697e33efc8a9cdd5b001efd/bomumevajukoxeforozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49034451024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.si/upload/dudotudukunarazimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/jikotunarulobuxorigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137583525a7f---41163566503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/xebujodovuveluwoluzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/21566299237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=watch+adventure+time+free+online+streamingPDF 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_off00011b88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001339f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1339F 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 6aa4d08d38176390580f98f2a738c56e3176d24a6b7499303b721216302de83d
font_02_sfnt_off00014d17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D17 18548 bytes
SHA-256: 361b1d13c6f4f1d87db0554bee36664d7dbd59635ab0ba7ba21b0b0b3a074a10