Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 266f1278751507b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:58:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: e3bdc4d5137da823d296534218bde0d2 SHA-1: a34676367732b810211d7afbb4a8e1185510fd39 SHA-256: 266f1278751507b6065e21afeb57250131f92ad727d00c206536a9ed100d26b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other domains, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a primary function of redirecting users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://isosklo.cz./uploads/60709915201.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/81122718536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210601_67A2FD1C89A71294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eaf142c3a3e6fefda167fa9b05e0d84/jamudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumototifototu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/zazugodijotonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kuraban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/19633250731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalsteakandstogie.com/clients/1/1d/1dbb6d5698303b6304ae84622e226a19/File/vatuzativotenafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrsgazette.com/admin/images/file/38718275399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b15630bc6---jefalakoxirenusifoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa20007ba0---surizepusawifelebuzotekut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/bijipozirabaratosubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/639a7bf7ad303135716cf0d6ad834eee/devuzeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/vadunutolomolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ms7ukfdlbqdveru3u8i5es4dhd/menigezibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/885d8a9febbb7ea6c37d4c544100d99a/fubatoromugiguxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/nivara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/jofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84f27c7f62d332081d6eb6be3b0262d3/73879388756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc44eaaefd9---70609392127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=easy+to+followPDF 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://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_off0000f0ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E0 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 5b8a603496eff5504ec44428920698e302ffa61ef4ed46a1a2e858df50efc1af
font_02_sfnt_off00013427.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13427 9960 bytes
SHA-256: efca7caae97b446647ec2eb31e1dd30bbb3bae85ca3d2ccb5d818381e88c1389