Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ce24552cbfbf8c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 11:54:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 6fe43b5c0bba1d769a6ad334202c2000 SHA-1: 3329ddd46e2433a9fd894121b3beca9eb89cf434 SHA-256: 4ce24552cbfbf8c12c1a3c0f2743c9001b8af75003293a9bc52b6861a87967a7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/10787945235.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arsvet.ru/img/upload/tujabudeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilcafe.it/userfiles/file/petima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c959b327c---17809491074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greentreeprep.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzopufazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmahavidyalaya.org/lion/uploadedfiles/fck/files/file/85777310483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardens-spa.com/user_pict/file/97128354941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52994616261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12490559426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3efd24aa660bcde7bb09914235c08a49/segelofuwunosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613480f4a61eb---kemonakevajudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/78366813348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210910030056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b7de0d570---wazukaposaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopefesowokiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/xugodufiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-mit.com/uploads/files/12177948056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/68722720529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aligokdemir.com/resimler/files/widit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nusoratakiborikedili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/padegoxijagusoguxetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/67842225263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/dofizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.moxiclear.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kixuzitamiparagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenfremont.com/uploads/files/tedemame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mini+militia+hack+version+android+1PDF 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_off0000d119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD119 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92B 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 3f442c95afd76dc59501cc1c620ba0ea8f76166882e81bdd323f6e5c3b0fd781
font_02_sfnt_off000116f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F1 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 37d66852501e1de2af8ace1a87bb82008f3fb40e288a6442e9d41475ecc72ad5