Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26219570c47b316f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:00:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: acc3af17f74f3704656da50355765dd9 SHA-1: 389d3274759f8733ce63f1ecac875954fa21b87c SHA-256: 26219570c47b316fd031f09c459bc7ab2493ed6235afc93c2482c114775c8ce9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of using compromised web infrastructure to host or redirect to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=babymoov+monitor+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://giaphatmed.com/upload/file/lufapoviduvigotezedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/waxojowidorunevukibirapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb6723e75d---xomemawofijawojokeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/57910438177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobbpaynefamilyreunion.com/clients/862770/File/94635198073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4577c23994---82066707126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sts-cct.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/lejefowesuvik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210707_181333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607732fe18fd8---38795696518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldtimerclub-thueringerberg.at/images/file/lamapokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsaman.com/files/68270289539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4bd49eff9---rololuvoxopugovazeruroduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skylineidaho69.com/clients/c/c7/c7306e0a9cc1d421caefa9c307ca601f/File/57105498374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089caf2d5795---41963181656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/41111353744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vit-physio.de/file/90530809298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a37573a2b78313ae2dc69b83b5c68d/16950698010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bbce9a7a7a---32326921030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/gesisabodaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81n1eetn4i4oljhk3i8af6najh/gegugiwojefukevapogufoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/guzituniwujif.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_off0000c3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3B1 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 485f53d2ab68023f0eccf680e9bb9ab9d518f0ce9d515e9fe9ea4bd5fb5761ae
font_01_sfnt_off0000db5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5F 19968 bytes
SHA-256: 49b8d49edbfd10cbb857ff1967dc4dc4b133955c1bfbb245bd22657e2e6479b1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1