Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e24420009a19a443…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 07:34:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ebcd7f3ef999ec0e04065fa565641b25 SHA-1: 0213b4dfa71d216c16077ba2d6c95cfb203b2f87 SHA-256: e24420009a19a443b26bcf23dbebf4d4b42f48c4eb23e7bf88271b06d4709c6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a pattern of using disposable hosting for link farms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/jovalinojizewufosijap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda4ed94fc5---gomalatarevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/940e242d5e2331d206d63855cacc43dc/buwifuxedodujogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/34923578540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/forosigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/gofapoviwile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f185420f0c0c90d7046783d6d7d0e2b/39525103498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e58e70a2f---29628841800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/69943303419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210528073002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cc0d905bc---88700830893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukhayurveda.in/userfiles/file/wuxifabuxofekaxinuzogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/noxudupamikenegubowado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94bd94923b---suwoxebuluzigiwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/487c5ebcd58bd35503b605ac37fe5f3f/tuvosujozikigixojatevuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/wigawufoxaxizupigamexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9qesvqcd3qc05e47iksbth8j2/64654303968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba6578f8633c5aaaeae574a5894938c7/8681977876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/2021623194912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afaefa3c328---98509147724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77fdd85683e37db1ba14b62027cf9964/27640586255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608770b297dac---95242492169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mobestiary+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f7a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A7 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 968cd2540fd1d4e629dc025c716124e20119de01f31df4cf0bc7defbf3f9dc87
font_01_sfnt_off00012539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12539 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D50 10680 bytes
SHA-256: efa07075e900d88b845a51dc31b0c80d58c46b1e8194f4886f5a11f0142efcf5