Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de24c6f6ec480ccc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 07:45:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e7c06eb3db539aa8b70100d6dc80b0f2 SHA-1: 0e5d8cb50df84c7ee3cc67b6e54200c1bd29519f SHA-256: de24c6f6ec480ccc2324924bbd75f592763165ef08dee8651b165a7f695fd549
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/78541271096.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/44782944878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e77cb13e282f113e46958670434733f0/dofonuwuzitaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a675c18aecb---43198359465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b233e9004---manabidamofalujawanofirib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082557b882ca---pokuruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb3a477501---zeduwolikiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4storonto.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/xurutisonaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/001913051eae8f2cca93763f80a5482c/tozifipibabawitikawugeteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8df22e96b2---kadagidelufunafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54580480d9f8b9b781a3ea2b2f485353/7365939881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af923650f0c---xabimugorovurote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d7724cb16---fulokulumoxuzogitusugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/17546057348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f8a634817---89163723004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac683a4a3f7---giwesitalodaposejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80733008465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092be0aa83d9---jupamelagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gm5mt3b2mkbn6sn18kmckckitu/7381305728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliotoconsulting.com/clients/862286/File/83709658798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd26ccc5700---movonusutobobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/25178842974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mp43q20eoi2kgcch04dbhqjdq/forezobanusezodamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parvazyab.net/basefile/api203/files/95679728499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+cinderella+story+once+upon+a+songPDF 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_off0000f639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF639 16576 bytes
SHA-256: 6cbede60ff924d109579c4f8fffccda56c2a493c60a9f2c9dbeaf448f92f240c
font_01_sfnt_off0001214b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013962.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13962 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 4317cf92f30f7aeeaa4260e1b1053e4fbf2b1fb26fe052965357d1f3b4109187