Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24a95da21a31360f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:44:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f9d1a9851686413c39d8436139e7eef3 SHA-1: 570e2af2eeef4069e2124e9e26a7e4c94c6595d8 SHA-256: 24a95da21a31360f193444a1f1dc30f4233130c35e887d43f20aaf1194144c5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of 'utm_term' in one URL suggests tracking, common in phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=okja+torrent+download PDF link annotation
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26309697731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7352aff0c8374ff3712822af06948727/ravotajutidivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrickstaxi.fr/userfiles/file/6905346245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6c3d1d2e5---notozavexituluzovusarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kriosispl.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitumokitowudawowixupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotel-gerard-dalsace.com/upload/document/67972668190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210907_121606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interference.ajoda.eu/userfiles/files/gogidijiboduwaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/43493764390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkeyinsurance.info/images/file/43016358956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/wuretifaxutotojajudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38b0556611f53f2226607d80f112326e/nobomut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisleriwheel.genefied.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98719432335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents/files/kataluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingfrimale.com/userfiles/files/kotinulajubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ombs.ru/uploads/files/zoxufuzuvolifataguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwbright.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911090121251408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbqwxdbhblh2h.xn--p1ai/data/file/46949252731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reeder.ee/files/filemanager/10813479999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panoramabyty.cz/content/87520775523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://husplaza.hu/editor_up/66978566349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gedasibitemitukutelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accu-split.com/userfiles/files/44856150714.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_off0000c11d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC11D 10316 bytes
SHA-256: dc48c6a9471946668fc80c4f96e5fc85d3b65673fc6eb06de6b6c12ea78069ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000d899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD899 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AB 18344 bytes
SHA-256: 82aa3e4c0ba1e3bdca7f5442849e391f84cfb50d2ac88b8b3a8fb3f05dc933ef