Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f24598f878ed9495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-08-04 22:04:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9e217d1bf29682cd4bb864d7a94a7598 SHA-1: 1392fc03246732008c80afcb17bc88ac049687db SHA-256: f24598f878ed94952d2ad0519f597349c369093b9892a0496ee609b922e17884
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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 http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083959ac5792---tuvano.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veterky.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/85533499842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/gudukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b3ac419158453223737410209d701d/migawibakuxijexugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pickup-ws.com/userfiles/files/papejojane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/gukerugifuwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abfc580555d885ae1e96fd4d75061fb1/14499916268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7e7a00123---nikagewapelimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///tuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/19795055692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91128f3515d87df987b22aabc3c85f13/gifasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://longhoang.vn/upload/files/70006723327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/puelitkmjc05tocvldgaj3qce0/40164366100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09555ce84b6ba93d8776264727e69170/51866487450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.com/uploads/files/fasapona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e538a682493---74664585011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/40632872015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.vn/files/usersfiles/files/fobofumijugumosunijodunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhfdqibqqbvqj3qkceh5fl6980/25264915651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/zowukuguravepapugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106539029cb8---nexupijepuwaranusiligekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/46753378302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=cat%C3%A1logo+virtual+urbano+price+shoes+2021+pdfPDF 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_off00011a56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A56 11708 bytes
SHA-256: b8af90a837290686c3b3745cfb537154611c784cb330d00d6925755cad3ca548
font_01_sfnt_off00013582.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13582 18180 bytes
SHA-256: d7942b5bd130a80737b68c51252cf50f4790e7aefcf79e5f632b6436c7606624
font_02_sfnt_off00016489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16489 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1