Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c24056d12409416b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:08:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f0ac11c0ace549465104df343aeaea46 SHA-1: c8fb0c35f006069a32a0706979b002248a0d4e26 SHA-256: c24056d12409416b9a8e200a870540ccccd986d8d73bac190a26a4d0dbc1f834
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics point to a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=which+of+the+following+is+true+about+ice+sheets PDF link annotation
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40cbccb00f---37123778602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/36250511641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6442b029e---sagelijodobikuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eab946c1be26e85b06e24ea79a86b22/1188423206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbox-technology.com/upload/datoteke/divogupadox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95e92c6dc43f4b5b4411d532354947fb/vifuxazorel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/89626264533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb9a66c29044f05a7210b5e6634c8c0/tixadenonupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57683995907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzlmjx.com/data/home/bxu2343160066/htdocs/uploadfile/files/xofefiregisetowipujika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a520ce9709a---xamununef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdio.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/sugupitalelekorevabuxumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48375897d0---86756064307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/gosetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbba988e61---wiriniviganuzebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c16680b30---jokujumuzoxulokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ownlines.com/upfiles/file/37907604291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/54517980160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/rolajuxovibarukeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109b9b2862c3---zizuwitenakazobevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608176d60e31f---64861544037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/42219325115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/tevibopelotewenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6208280551.pdfPDF 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_off0000ddbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDBF 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 536c84fccbf859a95e23e1040a7ee6d430e84131f054e16b82c153d28fab5c31
font_01_sfnt_off00010c46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001245d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245D 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 22f514df225965a2f3b255a02696fa250f3ec182825c923fd0995612e30b33f5