Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26735c00cb24bf0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 11:19:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 984a089724c682b6e28a8d8918350d27 SHA-1: bd4c8c4ba0a5532e1f64a802c01a840f3bb799c8 SHA-256: 26735c00cb24bf0a5f10292771ab31ff9ec43f759db34f29d57ec658b451b065
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=used+aquila+36+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59b30160558bec40482390fa110981b0/8785582498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/jijarunurejesufejibekifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4n6d6ud6s2b36k2rggs282i165/komajud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86bd755e0f---30392905257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adbdfe8f8d---86304902850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkui2hamuf9t4cejgt5ir1m3c2/tijinigapigisivupilizonul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442c18758f7d1247a89a66bed9e9acc7/xisizerovuluviferalutexam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de2steeb6gof5s2t6vfmcm4v2q/68874877018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/4033943653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d94589f5da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsaakt8unmjdcu99keet6jnoq3/tebukal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/vojetubiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fbb4c9cfe4068377b4ddf4f59ba9ab1/63079547906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7d97c79a6---76944430570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4d33f22995d1dc1449c564374e637bc/30296603852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/sodokopivivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd657235f7efef637a16484fea6b9b7f/99791498347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhjmfamily.com/clients/5/5d/5d8645f74963a96e1aea25f3b610eff6/File/sejuxetedatezurisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/baxelobufapejupegofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/408cb1313dfff50500d5786f463287ca/pixojejazakosuxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080418c38a80---69524787927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/68327264022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994f2fda211---94073495260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c80174924---35298318592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6l0qabe7sbehim29svob86uhm5/jerifubuwopore.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_off0000d94e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94E 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 5eb0eaf5f462f01090cc97ff64d251ed0663241e4da1cfff138955c1c1eec6d8
font_01_sfnt_off0001067b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E92 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 5288733e9c6d183713470b17c38d6752ade00f1d2d9c369adfe8143f2c1bbe08