Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26146f54266dca8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 03:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3332c11926b88a9b117338460214b808 SHA-1: b27b3fab2c36a66f0a161e5b9c0777473e6b1615 SHA-256: 26146f54266dca8cd88341c696777cf3ff88bf246b6795ea489cca9f3399caeb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm containing numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aaja+nachle+mp3+song+download+320kbps
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/79829860950.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f4d9e0fc8---51464221381.pdf
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92102598356.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba2cab56f1---79475863436.pdf
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/589a89a3518a5e08e8c88e2108be0b32/53906528137.pdf
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/63414654614.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa3cea2fa1---selijajitejufijavinujug.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf628bda056---59518526927.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4c00c82c2e---66588865196.pdf
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0804b660fa9f8a235388ec063c6f82c7/lemomit.pdf
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a661c61d62c5150d4ff0e3fe1e3f3ac1/57212885544.pdf
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/jabuxegilekigenuma.pdf
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e67030117f69b369b344b7771b3e875/telogi.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae5eea3434---guxomevodexetinawubed.pdf
    • http://cabin4kids.org/clients/0/05/050cd0fff5f75fdfd14851583cc0de74/File/73931520245.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076847e0feff---80789849711.pdf
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/sidugugunoxipoxoxewa.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608722bb9f839---fuvugepapepumoti.pdf
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/jolofeg.pdf
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51sh9pa7d4p3vrs8qqljker2d0/22334504836.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35fc4d804d---tolowobeveka.pdf
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb3vfb8g9djgbjt05lvst3cp0l/68171576636.pdf
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/zobezer.pdf
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/22270898885.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_off0000e9af.bin
de70f57fa549863256fa36ef76697de94d7c1c616d3d5008943bfc1312b5ae6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9AF 17096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011688.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11688 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e9f.bin
63e3867cdf7ac666b3ce7ac07fd47c801239b8c8764c950065f82b9dc62d6824
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9F 11516 bytes