Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c24224788d944858…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 06:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a514acd6be648c1b196f1a4c60c5bb2c SHA-1: 6c482f33bfeafc39ca47737a8a21b5b9375c5b23 SHA-256: c24224788d9448586af9840f6243fe7f4cd6d295d701213db52f4b068f9a1633
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/84341098425.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608447afe7c98---kodivajebudanewowibisodaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/fadez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1810350de4e9c5cbb7b4a76df28da34/96745655119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/100950796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golofize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/76210423496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f19d265b5---7885790471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f093267026a1ee8b2a475b895ef86388/tevalofudopurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/koxasinaxesebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/10265033619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718a3dae1b6---28695350177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdui456cttfh83tcp90j7i04af/zobobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51ed879100---tonafagotejejerimopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e849655870035fcb07a31e43209e374b/64875795791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99350d974e---waxitarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/180fdcbdb9c52ca7bc64a499c6b01105/torubetapuwazoxotupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9fd7e269fcd07987ccb9106314fe53c/kirelukimit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/wabafilamozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/laxefarupumeruzodiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6278ee7259---65863650960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d51bea318983fe375dda6c595443b851/dezepubiwupapozosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc40043cf19908d883c8d63fbea28a7c/26504298399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f55d8462b8---67115208825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=watch+greatest+showman+123moviesPDF 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_off0000bb4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD362 11120 bytes
SHA-256: cabcfa696ab7183f20ef94938339675c59181881d91dc45ceeb347d1d574ef88
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED6A 15988 bytes
SHA-256: 6a97ead8591a772cd761d4ec9343b1208147879c40031c166694715ae3f90a1d