Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 261726c6332ece0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:51:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7f97075e5a9a6fe2c1bbb833fe063ebe SHA-1: 2a30dbffb95ab8f75d56ce24655362744ef12d4e SHA-256: 261726c6332ece0bcfad75a1c3d0373ded932e5ffa59aa68b2ae9959f41a6866
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The document body, though truncated, indicates it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, reinforcing the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=journal+entry+worksheet+accounting PDF link annotation
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/fadidulabavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/85889531783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa2093282e---1242644275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/88407224024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/wutoxodikejafeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2os37hf6lvd49omj7ddl8q1lr6/60070712659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8db6f1e7e9e748f468218a764cfe549/45972652319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamducphuc.net/images/files/41480666899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a3fupfi05l31rq6auhqml5387/suriwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/82902103002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0c0741a85---wasebozewasuguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argumentua.com/i/file/wunatenogononipisiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/kabutozuloduriwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeternoplanning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tineposinagasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fizjolech.pl/userfiles/file/34956055782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e8a6853bf---53086091486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/47472311259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k889hv44u2it4mdns1phlb3t93/4824660291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f7ea75176---navad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenmongdangquang.com/upload/files/84627437398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/5813346737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/dixepenumitufopeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/tezizarikilosijotoveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d50c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50C 17836 bytes
SHA-256: a762ca65b595d8a9a5eb03a6ab641039a821bc40306bdd61af2ee94bcf3f8512
font_01_sfnt_off000102c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADE 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 65bf1954b11244c974826252fdb1b5aebc3cd1bec401b5a618e815cebcb3e5d0