Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24cb4a235767529d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:21:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 85dc847e85d0bea702876b8db86fe254 SHA-1: 7c1f63b6ad7f60dfb49a459b7c6d95244158ac3e SHA-256: 24cb4a235767529dc91bdd5de185fbb02b8bd01dd59b37b9e885d94ff614a3d2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains multiple links pointing to external resources, with several heuristics indicating a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users through these links, likely to a phishing page or to download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/kedevanasifujujokegotiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://perfectprojects.ro/userfiles/file/ketitekawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00c8a9354e23cc4891b4c70219406201/vapopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intproplaw.com/admin/uploads/file/sirozikofodafupixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99217459437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021082420134473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e38eaee97a42f6b0da2a875f029e413/46710093066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59adb86264c29d72c7397d97bbcbf85f/motizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adbce21eecedd724cdaf182724a22d09/99435424599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carraracucinecomponibilitrapani.it/userfiles/files/73031826397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guyfamilyreunion.com/clients/41950/File/pofovigogujexotuver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/lewaxebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115a5fcd930b---fofemiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/040128104386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhodeislandalpha.com/clients/56223/File/bipuliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/87307320062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/fukijebikujulanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a76b726fa5---66305751271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/77347778465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/rajelusavepuxosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9b9211a34---59110560336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/4818355343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7265540396c76e138410d4a2abb222ae/dapafenugudubewiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd4321c0e8---33734280198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d48eb9e4d8---giwaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/moweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=esl+beginner+questions+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_off0000bdf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDF5 16700 bytes
SHA-256: e8d6f10c621d5cd2335bb9d59b06e9ad6c5a907d5f64ffeb3a1cd3f7851008ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000e850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE850 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010067.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10067 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 23a63a2390ff6a3b83c63e5754b3e64d0e0c5892a9549d581889b53baaf3e6e8