Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a24c4c0106524d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 04:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f80876765624fc95800417eb8bf982e5 SHA-1: b80d947219b2e155f81ffbebe78ab8a44fa52355 SHA-256: 6a24c4c0106524d00489dd5ad1e557e90cec5e6b3380952aa6edbfd9b2f38e0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external URIs and link farm patterns, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to malicious content hosted on these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=melhor+reprodutor+de+audio+para+android PDF link annotation
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/8943082016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136315069e35---mibazojenodelipidoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4150a7eb6464c7917ed943616f75f695/mizijujogatawuxowavokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa566e49d27fafc0191d86eb5521eb13/28110007153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/xalemivekax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/61872794793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratorioshamalab.com/userfiles/file/92949606035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6637af824---28950093507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mascotdd.com/file_media/file_image/file/kikopefodizoneson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/zoxuwunuwomosibowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/levogezejumudaxivevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/miwevilidipikakobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompassztuki.pl/Image/files/zupikesojanosejuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/31333008809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77593273009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/monutitutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7325497c531fb58ab55cff85758d8b50/jiribarisafejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210904220557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b707d5852---vofuxofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/jopozisizoremukuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/53606100145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421ff7b31b7---50292007376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asvpp.fr/pdf/fawowazetuvotaseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingsbeltsville.com/uploads/files/23506593072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csp.hu/editor_up/6037421115.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_off0000e39e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE39E 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 599f343a58271860ce7e52d0b9b924c0177bd555ec9137f37d7a0601781eea80
font_01_sfnt_off000110eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110EB 10412 bytes
SHA-256: a3bde9f018d18ef7953a28b73065cc9e1a0200a9cf9abc8344f8e8cfeb0ed94f
font_02_sfnt_off00012860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12860 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1