Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26131a144725b59a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 22:09:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: def1fdecf7539b5bcf268cf93e77f627 SHA-1: 13004e8e1ea2fb763c931e664a5d9a7812ff24c3 SHA-256: 26131a144725b59a58c46f9c8c6a4f0cc95345b7efffe3f780f7417e2e37a09b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the compromised CMS upload link farm heuristic suggest the primary goal is to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/85538416196.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736a020de1d---tovarevejaxomamanogumexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe84dc66b0---92698139569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077efe2a4a3b---vijibugefogabusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1968c8f99f92721dec2cf501b9cebbee/19431431226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/kalovozunuvikimeteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a10d4a3fd05bd006921015148659803b/nixezinifikukedizunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maviet.vn/upload/files/17501309777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837fa0d30a9---mopewesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiconthebay.org/clients/2/26/269dd5bc96e197da989a8dccc71442af/File/78943838822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/tikoturekajegikene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16204818178334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cf26b7df5---95925848386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f5052fa0b---45314993959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e88132d9929---59956059048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9ut4qdq6cks19ue1up1o82sgh/71152172308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/18084253556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gn60826r4k18a7hmiva5sg8tt/zafozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe6e822055---mobaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/sezipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1763dcc837---55483845154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/47332701159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746ab22dcdb---65054837991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fufukupavuzepulemogiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+my+frigidaire+gallery+convection+ovenPDF 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_off0000d07b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD07B 16996 bytes
SHA-256: 8231e55ab1edf17b192918557a7899789858cd7f329b74776200d55e8a0bce76
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A7 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 1a3d89c334c2bbf775971a963a58c11851d20420688d416b7dd32e63fe234fd8