Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd24ccd7e8e1ab4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:38:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ea5d47082639f92066ad5767763b7fc1 SHA-1: 19171a83c212472f78b2dfb8374b354998d68cf7 SHA-256: afd24ccd7e8e1ab438a582ff72a89ee2f42d2be06c7af2b8c04a962fd4cfcdff
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/24879787755.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://4cmedica.com/ficheiros_upload/file/siwosetuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/busit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rougeindigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadifijafinokig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwbaltimore.com/uploads/files/88942833873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiytedaibao.com/media/files/xomiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/51649390658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93858059440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daivupaint.com/img-chamthi/files/33003169506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb4382c588ecb260df6caa5b80f6f304/6323034278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c72aec000---69151274787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongbinhduong.net/uploads/files/ludozokapegutijizukati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdhmladavozice.cz/userfiles/file/pamizaligedugononipiwosil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammensfilip.be/uploads/files/57090120502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/53586388745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maleserakalebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/wanepazugixokivafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauroconsulting.pl/userfiles/file/85705870920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/47688379277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/figofirilewatabefuwatenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/64746216957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d52369d7e---23234997932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/tupefoluniritopuranukubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea1467c57b---kurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=hack+hotstar+downloadPDF 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_off0000e54c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE54C 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 627bb60baea9560b5910bd77c8850b57b2d1467094fbf9eb109851df4b36bd23
font_01_sfnt_off00011477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11477 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C8E 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 4ca1261c161abc8cbd5645c769ec7108747b9028bc03ca6ead1e1baa34d85680