Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24aa126105cab5c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:00:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: bdb59b231aae7219b1d16442a6a178ea SHA-1: 93aaedfad6a91b3cb90e19f9fe6d3c2966306b53 SHA-256: 24aa126105cab5c47d9ccf189f36a5eee654506dafcc86a7e366cb656b044721
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The presence of embedded JavaScript, detected by heuristics and ML classifiers, indicates potential for further malicious actions, such as downloading additional payloads or exploiting browser vulnerabilities. ClamAV also flagged this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+a+mythic+dungeon PDF link annotation
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/68112608253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0e1dqppgpm1a5q2vpuke29kdq/92610780801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41119795809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c4b876fe4c77f415a455da2a793fd1c/liwefabibadigexonol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/452e4bd6eac47c43a151e4fe1e26c8c9/pujabapekoxepujalarojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/ponozilukomumovanezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a50fc390cf---rojuvazixamibonisose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thv0ig6ubk0g3ctvva5q2on405/69246013335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210806140523_stc15n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baiduvpn.com/upload/files/31012227065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/xobidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/bejuguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ece410a8956---jenavidadusalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc44bf4a424996f807e4c39b3382fde/47599996329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.com/app/webroot/img/files/zepaxagivariretaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/46662922383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c322dee41c---dejabidumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh9323otsvpfvfob6q8tg5pi8h/20967414277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6bbbc15a6---wibojitete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.performhabitat.fr/bundles/astadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91129792266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/49850080220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a018e45592e---65140587596.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_off0000dfc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC3 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 6b95cf8a49ef0a3de0bce9db580db2e1b5f692d9610e62c7c169b584f895d8e2
font_01_sfnt_off00010c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7B 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 93cdfe66980ec1313c125d6f48ca1fe6cfbca66f1495f0a088f590b16a77e9a6
font_02_sfnt_off000124fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1