Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c24c4ae7a9afa0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-06-06 03:43:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 872937bb88ef35b73b8c18f3579c68a5 SHA-1: 2349acf4a2fa7a3287bf450d6ce489b7f6794026 SHA-256: 9c24c4ae7a9afa0e2787e22d7fc503e33d7eb4b4ddd88dc67cda1ac1098dbf53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of external links and the high confidence detection scores point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+follow+up+letter+after+an+interview PDF link annotation
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c36c1a41044245f7b4187d26cd8831/56738163188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be254046affd2f6dc190f81be21cd537/799998961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0b1bovla8p91seci7iekfs0tg/tilafaduvusinokezupupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/17814221491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d61223516b---vodonipewozexixofoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/4351908773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb40f76668b786447de3483dd5ac0a95/58309894036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/nijedunilusuvatufoxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a790448dff---kanofukozeramizotigifari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/25058096284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/defitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/fisawevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dbef3f9e9---vonefibavojeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87b395618d5697f10be6cf685f6e2077/romaxuvuzudidepagetam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/34749821391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD097 4828 bytes
SHA-256: abf78a57bb76fd365f4ce72f08328fb6ead8785419fb892df3654982c1f82c6b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e12b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE12B 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 8beb6651564adae907d1a9b3fa2b3f4234482fcb2fb3b04a0e2fc1172acd403d