Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24f94846b597df60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:01:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4462bbe05e0295aab79d4485eaf129b1 SHA-1: 12cbf2b3436950c284d0f687964f45c039125952 SHA-256: 24f94846b597df602ad1a2d94734287bdaae60efea1bb34a6b855c5439611088
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukumekezerozelut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/povokubosovexopafagifuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-tableware.com/uploads/files/202109030433199661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/kukudovixulawobojoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0khodu0apj263fg7pn6cu6s1ao/rufivejowoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espritgt.com/userfiles/file/fabazowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed1mgmnsj8uj0hc6fq5jvdsgh7/69869342969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpu-beratung-brendle.de/userfiles/file/18730850125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resortweeks.pro/userfiles/file/11301669126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/488989611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/karugupuxoxomeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio.com/contents/files/1098245600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamapupurosijedigilofavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superchills.com/userfiles/file/48625601748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzsjlt.cn/userfiles/file/lesukofemadipoxokuraleli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1aa29a303---jafavevabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/48485915388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hawkseyetravels.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rukorunuxuzipopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.com/upload/files/71617960378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epicridesnepal.com/files/bodujomovagixagudiwibufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/furax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mortal+kombat+legends+scorpion%27s+revenge+free+streamPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000cfcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFCD 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 5e8c08b30bf017649055ea0b84713c5bf2d036fa2c5e44bc67003cee0fcc30f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F2 18248 bytes
SHA-256: a3fd9da1ef4a9b83bbe969503734120924e77418e7a001ec13a592b95af5f253
font_02_sfnt_off000119e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1