Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a24e5bb65ef08bf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 17:55:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 5a377cf14a7b85c03a35c1250e9f74f7 SHA-1: c4dd868b5639e4ef771cf1faafa9f9799f1dd373 SHA-256: a24e5bb65ef08bf312acaf1d923e97a80fba6fe70cb3b7ca25f84c848c3bf7a1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/dukapox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342f7357adb---62440672688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/supisakizowosefugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63516505609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsjsbzrw.com/uploads/files/87777295688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/42400724754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/widafezipogesusejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/4190112999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingyeknitting.com/userfiles/files/30189628902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlandpark.com/uploads/files/34744923155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mananobijunoxiweneni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weorderfood.com/uploads/files/28003296356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://violetstudio.in/userfiles/file/75009547941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinobajka.pl/Upload/file/50215216734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/29479537155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayihoki99.com/contents/files/60342855315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/fifetipinuxitomegofutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/94315118789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dortmundpools.com/contents/files/wepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360bda8840a---85601875639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abe68d72e7---gexoluxapedopuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/buxazubetij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/soxapanitubilawurajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/32293281555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=fifa+21+obb+apkPDF 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_off0000e58a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58A 10084 bytes
SHA-256: 4eccdb487a97bfce3f1dab3902622d6c00c57cf2710024a8d184c9dc0fc9ca5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113FB 18076 bytes
SHA-256: dd84b0d18c565e487a767571962fce3b781429641b253c3cf5c12f5da02d4693