Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24ed920c22c10fb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:21:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bfbe6da046b579239aab35e0ad33f3c1 SHA-1: 81116b044146ac82778a07557dcc499e64ef9daf SHA-256: 24ed920c22c10fb29d62bb82e401b5e5118ddb89b82c543ee516fbab44200074
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm with numerous external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=birthday+wishes+prayer+to+a+sister PDF link annotation
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/70999829127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kabojusoxukarijunilebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/zojimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4410f2f19---menuzavamowekijuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8b89bcc51---72161421556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742b24cb413---72950199410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989b480eaf1c1a801f370462412c7392/65098582138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrm01r6qfrbbc99hkldu5ds177/79349437494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korea-seals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77598299297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/xubixitogurivatazuwote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/gigilirokufex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/mawazejiwexawawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/45797474494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/mosuvojejidisameti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/18929417150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33301339966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/85109241017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdientunhk.com/upload/files/kisaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilistspb.online/public/files/uploads/files/25681614142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e0a69d7f9---14565548717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/64214046577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va26kfr3kv1au53439l513hd2o/38157253483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/59158176703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/pulikude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f0210799d---zifixoxafujalupazef.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_off0000dbc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC4 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 0f8f987e2097c02e872b006a881096134ba3539d079b394e7c3190ceb18a9ef3
font_01_sfnt_off0001077c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077C 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 3dad5ca1e04fe663dbbb7e36b00b75bd4e9f8dac74bcfa133566acb8d41b8115
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1