Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e24f53c05208f26c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:06:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4566df360fa55be2483c3ad9322f578d SHA-1: 2572979f519b2124cddc58f06bd68bd6f82d9922 SHA-256: e24f53c05208f26c3bfb784f8345f085cc50596cc74daa89430c88d676a3b54e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters indicate a strategy to obscure the final destination and potentially leverage SEO techniques for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/togosuwutabixoxirinij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e360a4790bc---28060326620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71335249a3cbb3db74c5f687b3ba3888/59705590015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/paxomagejogesinejegeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifobonigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bb9688694---71198514380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021521841296024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/gimazejunemuwafeduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44977139765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypcalumni.com/clients/2/24/24042806289e0d450134266962f0a0d8/File/51448863120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/90103834469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae07db3ccc6---lizinaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464b1i18ln27i6ijgh9s6bmhgf/62347268589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendsol.com/userfiles/file/vapasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atheaokk9gep6dv9ss6eo3deup/pexuboludivaxivajafuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5917e56ec5---67577071547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/81342615401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/23754940309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8919d97f84a245878718410757bbf88/wubumixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/30797103750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/57723034247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/980e176c86685f9fef89a7ab6cb52f92/fikudakilarofoxekemelixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=lean+manufacturing+pdf+livroPDF 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_off0000c0e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8FB 10916 bytes
SHA-256: b46fd5f977babdfe2737f918bf5d0c6c3170faa846fd53078de90038465d8643
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FD 17688 bytes
SHA-256: cfd61eb5369cc58dccb675dcda792422404cf56744dd91401ba68114678e2d5f