Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e24af54acfebbd4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:00:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: bf53d2984e442be57fba7ddbcc741b96 SHA-1: f0c2ddedcdede25dc1b4a22aaf74db56aa6e20eb SHA-256: e24af54acfebbd4af42a286c5b2c28cdf612a83553debd334b4e4922527d1429
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious websites. Heuristics indicate these links are hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brother%27s+day+full+movie+mx+player PDF link annotation
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/xavoxazativojigojisunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umiyawoodworks.com/fckdb/userfiles/file/pikawejizezufigimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/vijewusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d6db5e4581---73416442472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutaylamhet.com/storage/ckfinder/files/92434121243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imihwa.com/uploads/image/20210908/files/20210908102533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/51601307319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/71043591179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flour.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yeosung21.or.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631193085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134bf21e9571---kufabajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packamate.com/userfiles/199809057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozilasavozacem.rs/files/65571095233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52164041424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109010835529668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medosojewellery.com/userfiles/files/miwezigolopoxulosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613838180143e---fulodopidukodidufuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210901_081835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akconta.com/uploads/files/bojoraxutakumaxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.com/userfiles/file/xizorafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400a57b5735---74721274188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/rovaveboxesokokudiwojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac9782f532---36377277875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6cfc8429e---84834915892.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_off0001061c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061C 20372 bytes
SHA-256: babcf7a726f998f8799a5a1c12c2745a0dc2a0596261bf6385e0eed40dea1b50
font_01_sfnt_off00013c61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15478 11128 bytes
SHA-256: eca47b3a9fafb84587927f43697fde3a3a9aed913ab5b19b5ef391445e1e1fe3