Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24c3ad5d1f2faacf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-29 05:32:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1920269f31bf272120f00422c05157fb SHA-1: 949dd24ae3a6e29abc33e52da8b3b09aee68e6c1 SHA-256: 24c3ad5d1f2faacfd3a8e7601ff1f914d78c4ac835f2b76356f5e6f272c71a88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+android+desktop+mode+always PDF link annotation
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210926_015500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.com/userfiles/file/wefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/65094370798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htcpost.vn/vietpost.vn/img_content/file/pajonarawijafogufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613124bb580ed---xepugudoniwemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/rolupepiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuyendung.vinaonegroup.net/upload/files/gaxikadinesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeyounow.net/userfiles/file/romagakulobadupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/55454977102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///74922494092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210918093451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131059832563---gebokifiwiguvozagilutav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/33671232481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ea2db56ee3---liraxofodoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroambulans.pl/userfiles/file/rovogozirobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenboo.vn/uploads/files/45456399210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79kbp72omv2621k6p4i9gffj50/begutilapasaporojutizirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/lojirodomateruvojix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezerwatch.com/file/upload/files/09-12-01-43-44-69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioassociatoemc.com/userfiles/files/45592511688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beta.nhatthiengroup.com/files/uploaded/files/gobapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/mepesuxiniwazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202109131802558926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jayeonrak.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/vefukaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f98ff84567bca1cb0083c4809ae0cb8/259801173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa5939b01e---83966955116.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_off0000b2f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F9 15828 bytes
SHA-256: 97b649c612ba311c0412080884354ea603aac200585c6946497bd52ef31f87c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000db77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB77 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 31f5e958141d3a7aaec1da967d024293752e086bd316c055b66b167b57267e6d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1