Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24f76d80a7c2b98d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-19 02:06:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 71ceb86a72df55a63fb46c5d75faf8f3 SHA-1: 88522665b4ab38c403678c82a3e2514f23ed36aa SHA-256: 24f76d80a7c2b98d004e1d7993ebba2cfda3d124f5a063eff46c873b626420b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the 'link farm' heuristics point towards an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=word+power+made+easy+pdf+in+hindi PDF link annotation
    • http://valkexclusief.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/rebazudebuxigele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optykglowacki.pl/obrazki/files/nakonofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giguvububetig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161195f2c3494f---debugadupawinuwoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingchucontrol.com/Uploadfiles/files/safulegotawanuturumubufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd3a7dcfd6---85506602573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12822a7b43ce78a4c447106a5c0ae523/71225780413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopratichesas.it/file/vadozawugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/29417792300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/853180314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moolans.com/uploads/files/53951509966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/68071029670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zentrumok.com/userfile/files/96394154104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bafe318a997---80950119775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/61192420139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroear.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nomivokakoxetimisozulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8396f81465---towetolovekeziwatux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282e6bbe999ea1f98e0856d801f63558/nanolufujidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1961.com/clients/878968/File/sugadulazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6b208c8ce---37270854980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e43da377d3254b2c84393065d1ddcd2/juxiselawuterosujiloxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/18177870640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/vinidedizokidojifefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746407e7313---boduletuxemexukofonewuze.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_off0000d596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD596 16972 bytes
SHA-256: e1122a1499730dca78026215e7b93ee438999058325ec09f87d5f7d93ea9457c
font_01_sfnt_off00010191.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10191 10812 bytes
SHA-256: e94abb21651da43ed34a2b94fea324fa473c73ea8517d2760b0146df957d78b2
font_02_sfnt_off00011a57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1