Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 266bf9ffa1173f4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-06-21 05:14:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 63cd5baae6482a18b095299f2f029465 SHA-1: aa4d84cb1ac88484a7ba2e8d425fa7750797e5e0 SHA-256: 266bf9ffa1173f4f9a5f44c16dacf3bde6fd10b68454b9c9f1b54650f6dd95ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/26060609919.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607718fc52c33---tepalofevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/ladukonoxubunarifusulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents//files/demofadelageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac162468947---51600846735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76t8m3b4qflkdmdva8kfi1a6pm/linasefovememutikap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a477ddcc9---29977103911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9e5422be179750250760d5faf656e02/visesuxexolagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16072309d8a1c6---fijixezasedasugukudevujax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakugilewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humicdp.com/uploads/2021-06-15/images/files/88627412475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed5e8378b726ffab6141f186a5138c67/72826592222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/wujexurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4289d04aa3fdb3fb91c337b6481d52f/61729382632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/84633895257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aec9dfc2e51022441031da817cc1ef1d/15502178367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/re70rli2eis76sssof0lk6eofa/mibuvazisefugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b275f5a258---jezajiwulamulore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/15745664374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/vigifanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=all+the+green+skins+in+fortnitePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A0 4872 bytes
SHA-256: 2103d57c29595e61fa42b0a0eff29e220d54825435a35b8676805a48324b4c53
font_01_sfnt_off00010334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10334 10364 bytes
SHA-256: f75f206eca3bc545d46babe982f0ee0f598b574ad3a7225d9fa77a8825a08462