Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26778ddcaaaef83e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 06:13:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4356a0a4b0e1632cb54ea32d41058ee2 SHA-1: 58d45686b2000a780e8d092e0fa61468f94458ca SHA-256: 26778ddcaaaef83eb182ee3f5d14d5d3dd1200de559a3193fc5c6e1424ea4044
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to various websites. Notably, some links lead to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a tactic to host or distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+killing+watch+online+season+1 PDF link annotation
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdd82db7a6902fddc6c992b680159924/gugedesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyztyle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91778503358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foreverymuslim.net/home1/forevev3/public_html/foreverymuslim/upload/file/xalowulaxijumatudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontogepszerviz.hu/editor_up/kuzarijemujiwaxixosudifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamnitikamini.si/upload/files/dufesesosiximurajefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/10887040311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-cornevin.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuromoxonirawojus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/tumodotoxakigogevefuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357ca57b2c1---vebemodijigitutoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/51926594545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://8njl.com/userfiles/files/39621162553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/97516539431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40539085884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72910769286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc3q2m0m6tf901f3duo4cp034v/zezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/28174401488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/31765424814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrando.cz/files/file/tujikidixumemebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/54014189344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/mikosijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/20521971927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuc-fac.com/uploadfiles/20210907124402.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_off0000dc51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f463.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF463 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 34b39089c3909b0c16a62368d316304bdaaa78dea02bc80d14fc8118a50cd1c3
font_02_sfnt_off000122a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A3 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 3770261b9e592b99bbed55d26df6d1276908bfb5634917be574fb186e40969e0