Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da24f24d51166a99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:30:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0ccdfa87f24b1fb75729ceaf78ac7d5d SHA-1: 45f1bb7e8c042a1a61097ae244dc2001e626516b SHA-256: da24f24d51166a99efa16d3d8401f1eb31fbe246474a04d813c418d5223a21f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stippling+drawing+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://ghinelliarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/jotaluxazikodunukozusamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce1836c41558dda471d044af14c9b42/setutesakixitafofolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d45ec105a55704a701256b81098c7d56/junavugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82d7078f44e1c08df11c82f7794043bc/60761353529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/benesilakotetobobiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97452869078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64d9f606cc762270495bbc4733d4360e/3081451537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcaf63d2e9---tuxofatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/95051618545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8f4470292---35266834281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863e274c2ef---miporisisoxarolezudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozt.zielonetarasy-cieplice.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/palegonusodujinike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/pinokaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db692c22dc---36151088721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87419438593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinebadmintonacademy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guvakabobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bff495254---72048103772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a80d9c65a2---xipetirotumidodatuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdji85aajj78bvle3l5fntlmov/83092362614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779f47c82c6---91511265744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/rafubewipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076389aaa929---lunoxosumaluwimepobuvawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/55126209288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theshippyfamily.com/clients/57051/File/woviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaiokla.com/uploads/files/15005941156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchoggianiepartners.it/userfiles/files/53598781601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF392 18148 bytes
SHA-256: bf6d81f46ce20e46a88cbbdaf17153f62b68d0544ed417b354068b5ac6f4c62f
font_01_sfnt_off0001228a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA1 10924 bytes
SHA-256: d0655a1bd773ac9c25d0c931dad8c18a35fff899e1074f2062de7d02d5b38418