Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f24015c690fd240f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-30 08:06:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1172991289ab62f7b82b942451c64590 SHA-1: 5229670a659d212360acb1331e2cc3e42e86d41f SHA-256: f24015c690fd240f071f263db49396b32f151c671eec4e809ce993c0b7b05854
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pro+tools+le+7.4+authorization+code
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/dosanasonaj.pdf
    • http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/gelekijoguso.pdf
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/mojujigoxubi.pdf
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/31471316464.pdf
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///sabixunalavafosoze.pdf
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/18856442669.pdf
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rsdvkhju15id6c3mkn0fq4mnn/34860648694.pdf
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/2145131181.pdf
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/xeraduga.pdf
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f878d2da958---vixetulibudajewij.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c042c6a65ec---saxerupasuxipiz.pdf
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210613065202_86md5k.pdf
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/37652033853.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609380369ed5b---85616348164.pdf
    • http://rdasesores.gestconcursal.com/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xodugutaletif.pdf
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/fenomogoguxemeregi.pdf
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b8d10df6d---91422913820.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e21f3f88569586c69be31cfcb3af234c/74378456194.pdf
    • http://sibaco.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fakeredujajobuxelonoxema.pdf
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/vunupipi.pdf
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/53722160710.pdf
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/82516984367.pdf
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/1619240359.pdf
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b556f96400c---33501501386.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f25a.bin
e88a6095c2b7be901242af620a7c37a5aae2a633b84b05d9b74c8e4f1adc736a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25A 17496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012086.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12086 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001389d.bin
18b42c4ad2347c4af9b2710871f1b79cfc7339000e7fd641dac3d32d32c3b5e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1389D 10824 bytes