Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24a9b92fc4e4ab55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:59:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 613ecad98950e2f6caf69be54b0dbc27 SHA-1: 9158123047a9d5c2f6e46deb01724e536993ecc3 SHA-256: 24a9b92fc4e4ab550723af827b2e5dc5e60d6887395f048d5bb7c21971bec73c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting is a strong indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d919878a8c2---xunawanelafuka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68891757cd4e2908345c24a3afde5d7e/80534642716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jcrh4gfj4dpl1j46lj6bqu3ug/14666641392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119480365e58---35219608488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fee5550412---45335471860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bee2fa58bd6aecddd98b5938cb967eb/renunitukusonikibeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvbs0m7d85jjtsv2m4i2cvskf2/33947490549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/napurorave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931cf39d1ac---fozazomomeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pibebafovitufupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/kujipaxumono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/623b509a2c796c8441be1b45be6c228a/24342161645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/85988536084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evrokomplekt.ru/userfiles/file/tikevaramosuwilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zssadkowice.pl/pliki/wisejepajataku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/98449878403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doggystylzgrooming.com/admin/photos/file/40935593573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720821b214c---62806332858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitofthespiritcatering.com/clients/9/9e/9e5e3efd27976f294ade36eaf76108d7/File/pejugoxeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/lewozumidopidekutesomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liqaa-lb.com/files/userfiles/files/79717509531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bfb8d96225b95354dc2f66fdf83af06/dirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/vegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=trickle+down+theory+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_off0000dd63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF575 17712 bytes
SHA-256: 87dd676a34936ccf9802c04060415730c7bc0ce8d1e2c53445e02d2713fadf1e
font_02_sfnt_off000123ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123BA 10644 bytes
SHA-256: c4884045061b784d5932bba6f10e4142dadd95bcbb43735d77086f08002cca61

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