Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a24e23ca4b41ea5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-25 05:49:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d42a17ef873489e01c1c3a8420c9f096 SHA-1: 9b05048bd7b74848156b392d6c5f9c602eef1ba3 SHA-256: 5a24e23ca4b41ea53c26ddc2f5ab38db4a328d0c320fa8cb26a8404125a6386f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external content, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021051217420773499.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://skillmapmagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bafalavuxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ed3fc7713---81710694336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ef8bacfac---78182954411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da9d9f80e17---raxozofisekavito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/tobikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/10892591910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmjee15okop08m375qsh3ap4n1/noviketezagiwepujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7ce915d63780e4b8566c94b67e96c67/jolipokukonulifaloxemij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurolocal.info/sites/default/files/images/file/55087018766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bcb9afc03---14626649553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078de0038bc8---50796150393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad5bf2580d42d1e80d3d5fc5c8ee2310/bixinaxekosaxibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9880c2e70f---rikalezizagewawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/sopujulonikinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/kipipilenunibapalejasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tydafa.com/dafa/uploadfiles/20210705210446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6km8ovs2mpmbrlggtrbit0gkb3/jamiwalupubawuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bb9e2996f6d0defa5eec18c0086e17/70477393924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f877f892e88e9634ffe787d8b5a9fff/zugusexufow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/bamatigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siangyun.com/upfiles/editor/files/rejimefidudezisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stadion-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46390989496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/60735682240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/33180790851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+apply+swiffer+wet+jet+padsPDF 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_off000105de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105DE 10708 bytes
SHA-256: cc26ff91ce4e2c75a0401913dc6f9759f555530e9022b5747ba8b76dba1e94a5
font_01_sfnt_off00011e95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E95 17364 bytes
SHA-256: a3511f3cea1245d7824d23c81ff465416a8795da0cf7d28bd3c51d6b647dc10a
font_02_sfnt_off00014c0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1