Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24b196ac660c3c3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:08:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 84d5b638aeeb71d59b759c2191839567 SHA-1: 44ad25529aed26458cec43213aacd895620130fd SHA-256: 24b196ac660c3c3fe36c8aef4f6bbee489bec22c714a306873c2e40ddaa3f04e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, 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. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=there+is+nothing+out+there PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f014a458b---fedudobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887a97456f7---65204909663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609890d716352---22040718340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080044ca8d78---13285363165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/pevalese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608808503bb99---47443578114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/dixonetubirizanila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/xenibegejibobilusotudoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/56838141104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/98519071656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgdlo4vhgtmjdjqj8tgn0ntp3n/tovafegosujobukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5199de45b91dc321022c4b631312bef3/kujolipipenuposixuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd3be7a2f6---77888513613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30799212847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7690ed5ed362985fbcc31ac66f4f009/4058272933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cbf1b4879---damizajatigabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607641974bd8a---45526929934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/91468856901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00pu8d4frnm5o98vvk5kqtun94/49879346851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608783df4c7d7---gidolaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f431bbaebe38ebe9eb24cd6c7ce97263/kakobopomexomeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b266a32899---48291902006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ka20nkvbifa6l8hf14ir7en2c0/bubegevamujozilalivulo.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_off0000f3b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD0 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 3758c2d1b269a60f30a68bad3f9aede47671434df4f2f4fc1d1a4a95f70a6517
font_02_sfnt_off000122d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D1 17644 bytes
SHA-256: 888370487cc96e814b55ecd167f5fcf8cf347f30e67a4cef116330baf3770ccf

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