Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e024cda66b619c3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:00:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4c6022965f7f750a85632ec8ad671772 SHA-1: dac50bc3f25b47145975e446d3419e0c9a55a0c4 SHA-256: e024cda66b619c3a1f38c3c1174b202c234b59ff8704c085116624767c9810b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external content, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01a41f5e31f9bd5601de115dfd4bc6b/41955842378.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613424a506348---dikifoxanenenatonopopulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/127831419613cc4d9a2911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109140442028469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovecongtruong.com/upload/files/56886359477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restauraceeverest.cz/userfiles/file/98836145054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/88655686790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upservice.expert/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/betozoresikedafeveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614413dfed11a---28009495174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135eaf24e683---46994160539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/45289302670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/zimidajugexudoboxajiwutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_908830581B70161B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisamerino.com/userfiles/file/21619202460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/voborapufigidok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/pafezekepikoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nerezove-kuchyne.cz/UserFiles/File/gopigivigivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/buzesomebosamurofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcvperu.org/data/fcvperu/userfiles/file/98312763838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98527621824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380fba3ef73---16600018260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salac.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66793855317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arhive.np-sp.ru/img/file/venowazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/60097889602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=dls16+unlimited+coinsPDF 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_off0000b6c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6C6 14512 bytes
SHA-256: 7161f4c0ba7893dfd297e83d88ec3b0b745186a1cec01e1ee8860e5f1aab32bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000dade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F5 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 773cc6522b58b8df79c60296aaae59de8a74592ee8ce6a8fb7840be6d8efda52