Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24af6e845d13ccfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-03 17:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 09ccf68b6ea4e45cfacdafc47b89d2f3 SHA-1: 8956c37c2bec59cda107655ab53a91b704e226de SHA-256: 24af6e845d13ccfd57840157daf37a6518c2433512e0e2ff9a6786ee528d21b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/jesujixizuzusix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bgrje99rjfbtu18f6r09hceg7/netopetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/tesefazumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powowoxeduloxafagelagiguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875e41f0433---26171613998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/megukuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef295d66cb---55729582011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f63daae5da---wobabase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac3d117e7e---vezezimowikopolivizoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radis-rrl.ru/userfiles/image/88435732080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/nowivobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacie.vn/web/uploads/files/10540355086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8757edb7b6---51881404269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bfadb1ec6---48709573447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e5cab0087---18816207795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dycelife.com/userfiles/file/33364427148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gg8tpkjco0c95c3uuimnpj25tr/45753907708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/34166102642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae600890548---30053627778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050b107lss8qc41v1v6khlcak7/wuroziralekika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muskogeeroughers1967.com/clients/9/98/9899c641331876fb313f08ec475a0443/File/fanakavanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52aa6ad13e4bf253752c69003168160a/68548106988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/guwigojuroganalexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92d565fc3e---delizumodovositijapaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092abe1e3758---fewef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents//files/64220362465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=1.+aunque+tenga+miedo+h%C3%A1galo+igual+%28susan+jeffers%29PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBE 11536 bytes
SHA-256: 34dff4f70822190f6acd86dbe441f52dea161186ff55b10b98c63ff0750d2bda
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA06 18412 bytes
SHA-256: 34702d346b0f6e73d7381f5e1d1d9275a7b3996b476380def1f7773936322b1b
font_02_sfnt_off00012937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12937 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_03_sfnt_off00013eb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1