Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a24b66beec073f27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 17:38:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 15ad14c9c80dbbe05371495cc0011c34 SHA-1: c48836a34b5cbad5020c42859a8a55a802383ce5 SHA-256: a24b66beec073f27d7d3b9293fbd60219e7d05c66d0670f973e221c39ad2cce8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggest a social engineering tactic to trick users into downloading or interacting with malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3e4m5uqef0fg3loqk0gfj8juu/fusagaru.pdf
    • https://cdmsig.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94928149544.pdf
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/xinuvasozunitufo.pdf
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f68dfb42bed0006afe160a9e9d4ed2f5/33518770722.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjieirardaed57q9qjja062cqi/94163590068.pdf
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/38498605838.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc2e28f9fe---zixirikiviradojevided.pdf
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210529004747_228r7r.pdf
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/62944304727.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/84300369270.pdf
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/wuxoxexikep.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a281634b4db---sorarojuni.pdf
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/badusesisepegu.pdf
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/29782621406.pdf
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/kujogev.pdf
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/je8f4vvecp5gjo83e4h063pcm8/99296132411.pdf
    • http://rmgoals.com/userfiles/files/83588070728.pdf
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd1f335ca66---nogufokizuku.pdf
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/20558927847.pdf
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfb827e6d5f3e293f199e866d16b12b2/votupijof.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608462c2389d1---vuxati.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=business+newsletter+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011204.bin
383617f7fe3bf02087f0fb3964e1bcdd3a6960a0be37d7e148eea32feaaed62b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11204 17584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013f87.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F87 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001579e.bin
f43d001e7541bfae3cd22351442a52e7f3c6fa9798c6fb97cbf23833d889d771
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1579E 10448 bytes