Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24f70310be0b2507…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-28 08:37:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 828e89c4577b7996d22fcf11db5a7e0d SHA-1: e97f5c4938da2cb216a29b9b01f2f41532b75596 SHA-256: 24f70310be0b2507a35c90f0c516079852e8a98e71c24c8e63a9a10a47e3f467
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9788

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 http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/totutawuzuwuriduwarejo.pdf
    • https://corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15155654375.pdf
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/77739537041.pdf
    • https://www.cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29973785913.pdf
    • https://www.thaiahpa.com/flash/files/57610097023.pdf
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebbbfba2dbe636447af4bc46c271e0e7/96107172946.pdf
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/270dc09ee85f34a481cb38268225b861/7344222230.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c6e2b79a8---bovobemivojotefu.pdf
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/35485229856.pdf
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/24555873061.pdf
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613594f7d99e5---52227721595.pdf
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348e8cc5e0c---zelewenovoven.pdf
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8udrtgbleb6l1rdl9fl3e39hj0/9264651965.pdf
    • http://giasudaihocsupham.com/Images_upload/files/28715891621.pdf
    • http://ez-surveying.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/68269552333.pdf
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/jubudimumej.pdf
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/xuwutasubut.pdf
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemegajadebade.pdf
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/642a478e55bcd906af15bb79023480d9/kujakabisa.pdf
    • http://levne-pohary.cz/UserFiles/File/25605208851.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6d22b2ba8---4794639591.pdf
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/bagimepesafemi.pdf
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/29162596334.pdf
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/pewuvafelokikapibo.pdf
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/57157720713.pdf
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/texikasuwufepeze.pdf
    • http://singlesync.com/userfiles/file/58434689234.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+emerald+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b696.bin
5581abc3e301549aeef8a3552dba0beba3017923fa2a5ed5260de46dc7d5782e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB696 10228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd8e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD8E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5a0.bin
53b97259c6f2f9c06cf7ad5e554a5fae34e947e559c5c1d0466b89c2df629b21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A0 15912 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00010d0c.bin
1c024217ce21bb66922f73502146d3c7616b47413e2e194c36dd680b30e64e78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0C 16148 bytes