Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24ad1174722c1ddd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 22:54:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1bbba4abc3c310508ce543624050084e SHA-1: 9d53d722029c5a53da800a1cf19c3bd958d8216e SHA-256: 24ad1174722c1ddddbf3404c8eae6df249596184796e69f323c93daf8b0cebf5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical for phishing campaigns, containing numerous links to external sites. Several heuristics indicate it's a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to distributing further payloads or conducting phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://topflexsports.com/uploads/95817574256.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/30401629321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23687260809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailpark.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/losidutiguvejukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/kulebubijebarelijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/zezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385834603c7---pijujijegede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcss.hu/korosi/userfiles/file/55419711428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/616745ff8ae3e99e033251ee3fbcf0cd/wojefazulamet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/fovixiwewodujadelika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/73623716142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/nowetebupewivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/nomikizenuzuzibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizcsap.hu/files/file/39192363650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozammuner.eu/userfiles/files/22424752547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wideanglepackaging.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44598017189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c720d399ac---xisadogugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a9a624e48---69173061105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/973a0vpbpeh2e1udqvcjcc0095/58939708231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d244aa136d---42066479665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/27049913711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614141bb1476c---repakobemiradut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=download+themes+android+gratisPDF 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_off0000afd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFD8 10780 bytes
SHA-256: e5348c616f29e2314483d454c0682875435d6a1ae95be2893277a3ee07ee460a
font_01_sfnt_off0000c84c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC84C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e05e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE05E 14324 bytes
SHA-256: ac5ab9b17d681ae542038590f5ba91c5b9643205544d6b8d717bf2c497c875b8