Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24b37ab350929432…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-13 05:13:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 764333891f6495b7f69547b1e7992f45 SHA-1: a90ca59c9275540ec7a2dcdfae1bc32611a3f6ba SHA-256: 24b37ab350929432e8cab1f74bca299041dcfe736df779c34ce215a73bcdfbd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document's structure and embedded links are consistent with a spearphishing attachment designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://hi-techfiber.com/userfiles/file/bifame.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810a43e2b85---zopadufavinonike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759ca5a52ce---zetevosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8d2i9i4adtj2h8gi66jh99lbk/xexafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/didadaterekep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c173efe489e---zetimina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc4a515389---bulopodanofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/xomuxidega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/tanogixazaxutujusokoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44c26210f8---31765242539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leilehua76.com/clients/4/4d/4d80c013f15dbe3c797666a457780dca/File/22303882255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bd01f4866602a94ce44189665efd2ab/92809783841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/vimivutexonuzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62445f24696f43193ad6d7237f77a462/raxapetibesegatokobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/lopeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/53340056116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/mibajuwebokaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db45f9bacdaac053e7dfa4462e18fb1e/93118725983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/wuxudaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607badef02612---30236644857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e81b6562a3d---soxipefikadodiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b19778170---fetejemizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=peptic+ulcer+disease+guidelines+2019+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_off0000f30c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1E 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 085e3f91b7cf40edc9fd532b92712fac393d09dad523ac46590d5925aaf1287c
font_02_sfnt_off000136e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136E9 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 0145225af3d3e51f04d9ea62309a0d6b7d1d075c6ee005f59658da668bf6de40