Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24dcf3af0d7b2966…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:42:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4c5fef100f7f4f541c4981ad36e4c84a SHA-1: 2ee03f3d1cb8a44cb454aff63705c444406a6250 SHA-256: 24dcf3af0d7b29660b83d65e169e4b8c5071e95339580dc80cd8e851343069c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9874

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reproductive+system+concept+map PDF link annotation
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/wexizajuvetojopumisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09a9d29135---nufetitixowabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a248onvsur62nmm85g6aph0efs/serufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/18619679160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be0eda7fb6---wefumisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o1aceudllii963pppusk4tonb/75040969124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/312e3659957501e71bfbd2763da22924/tasavoruruzapegewej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/94563314420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b8bd90898---moxubiluruvuxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b15a8a268de50980e3d5149730a42dc/72774592167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1e42d653f---ronigoduzusibemoriza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvpa70otf6864unur42l95lgf3/tunobeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/43102599395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fbb6696e1---mafabosikelutenamorixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/wuxenuboduvexukabenejike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15804c87cd685922fcca6384cd3e7f91/27369102810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e03cceb7815ca7a84a46f42aae57c041/golisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/57270167339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/33488266258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r464gdb2sgg3r4vlf6bkkts035/mugarorudatowogezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2omdc6d26rl91pop9tj3fp6di0/nejisetavofegiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c1d984e87ae1ef292e41fb5b4620a18/pufokagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/213e703c1c3f4a72a644186aec399a9d/kugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyobel.itpublic/file/fizemuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3587482349.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000112c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C9 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 6c01cf91dd4f32ad10d9f4c9e7ab87eb11fdfff7e36b41a00e47127b0b848e74
font_01_sfnt_off00012c35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C35 16248 bytes
SHA-256: 6c7e1b754cf38ee70ad76cb780c90d71dc4ff6fc3e14eab78a91c98fc4406452
font_02_sfnt_off00014205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14205 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A17 18376 bytes
SHA-256: 6b55a55ad5c0148d062fa5d51622785f7a199e7fb051fd4b44dfaeb215190439