Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24d2ca2582ae9229…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:11:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ae9c3cb1e1fa9a38d8c4a7bc59c7eec1 SHA-1: fca5268e3c3e33b34f1c49d8055a9d716cd1ab4d SHA-256: 24d2ca2582ae92290d87199f72625dba0ff1fd77eaa8d7ea6c8234f1d93c6f1b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, suggests potential malicious scripting capabilities within the PDF. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9879

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 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=general+knowledge+mcqs+pdf+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://alev.az/userfiles/file/70961897108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coopinproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36497242389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbtfilm.com/uploads/files/8268341935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/92872826567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrickstaxi.fr/userfiles/file/xeget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1thh1hvvaqbq8j9l45svf144a3/pivirarubifidobaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file///2021090902015160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/kojatavudilopuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/77807913924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2eab6ca95---gajudafufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66227585388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/pudedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/kujekosezadiris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abdon.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39064457456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yepuco.com/uploads/files/18784806968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/99107234829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamma-electronics-eg.com/userfiles/files/15845770290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021091001235969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/xobevaxareganewugoduxemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/mutupofasurasotonafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plechotice.sk/tmp/file/dizulerimirogexijatotasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silatur.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lewipunezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/nutokekijikemoporib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a41ea3764---meribeled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72298935421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/19295209444.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_off00010dc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC3 18776 bytes
SHA-256: 76ab7cd43016d0ced9d0024595802d64a6001fc11f488ccafefc012ad2630952
font_01_sfnt_off00013e4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15663 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 6b14f8ff308c9f5ec3cccca6e95f45719dabc4c4786bc21337a96128a555348e