Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26064e9f4e754d87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:11:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 281fce960ef5d47b5fdbbe71cb745901 SHA-1: 5ac88359c6fa037d28aced27c568f490f1fa1ffe SHA-256: 26064e9f4e754d87d35e6b06a3e9a594caef016c215ee8dbe449b73466e4f549
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF sample was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users through these compromised hosts, likely as a step in a phishing or malware distribution chain. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 5

  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bellwether+states+2020
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34291f98bce898b93b0ad2c253a887a/71562136945.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab694d46796---55809717658.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13e77a2f72---80948080629.pdf
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7703adc5fa2cac3ec7ba5c5c561c2172/reban.pdf
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2shauam5vumjtv86bikrh756m/10188915446.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a5d1e9b22---3360582686.pdf
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79a4b6af716db7a482a8b615c7be6e8/46459788230.pdf
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/dizazakixaxunevifusakajo.pdf
    • http://1970lions.com/clients/5/57/57eb30a5877ba0c7834658d164206012/File/42773053132.pdf
    • http://nhs1980alumni.com/clients/878257/File/revororaladis.pdf
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_1D2DA83496AA4359.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqc98tbeegk61oqd3ptj74hbm2/5636253903.pdf
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66ae422dab79b064cb57c080bdca5e1b/robibadoparoxare.pdf
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/97495605859.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2dbb7cdfeb---digitaragebigajagixugesed.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82382e6fe6---35379999564.pdf
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbkim1gv05g4i88beklq466sjs/15323961014.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c187a6894---vujixurifapi.pdf
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789829ac6db---39422350027.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8b6042075---likakivenilijeropog.pdf
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021050505144640.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db76731c4f0---57046786118.pdf
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/xewegusivuvovekuvolu.pdf
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f8e23025f55ec2d2649dcae8b9cfd8d/mezanazuralofowisi.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/27466519003.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_off0000fa64.bin
06b73e88b3c2573262ce4ece48d5abd8f7ee7b2a04eb67fcaab49f27e6d7ac9c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA64 10268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000111db.bin
05776a9eed5a99cec02b974b6445c34295e24f7fed6acd7718ad8b747b1c7d74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111DB 16568 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013cf6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CF6 16792 bytes