Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26815abaa75f42e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 06:00:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: beb2864fbbb05f1a4c43e8d2ad400c73 SHA-1: c4d5ae714f5a3d696747954ab471ef2cc145d2cf SHA-256: 26815abaa75f42e8bf795de7295c734a76d51bd3fe2970880c5c30d4bd6b1891
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious PDF identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/36853748325.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/17438112289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budgetparking.ca/admin/uploads/file/liraserolisararapemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29366793168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiswerte-unterkunft-papenburg.de/mediapool/gepadilovufinaletiparasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intemhathanh.com/img_duhoc/files/jiwozukazilotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hostingureitings.lv/uploads/userfiles/files/38586594053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--psg-9lac.hu/files/files/27253626215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e92166c363291ca521a4b6d08ddd07fd/36636310981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagakuratrading.com/js/upload/files/siruwogobodozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haliburtonhighlandsheritage.ca/userfiles/file/baxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/44667302494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiperaktivite.info/userfiles/files/70572567169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/285cce76f95d7af8a67cd0490e1f825d/mixezizaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsace.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71488773106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riviera.az/userfiles/file/92565283698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/xikanarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esofagopisa.it/userfiles/file/86134722202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrspk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89878335127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/34760758453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355d8bea490---87919463113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vers-ma.de/userfiles/file/rebutibelomolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinko-tw.com/UserFiles/file/dedalorubifesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/54849849427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/382406264613650313a37c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loisirs-auto-occasion.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fokifuxagavitifowuzusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=spider+man+web+of+shadows+psp+isoPDF 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://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_off0000f4e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E6 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 36f820bc4d3775218d7104c95e7ed9dc233fd48d165fc509fa2667fc91c14119
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC1 19392 bytes
SHA-256: 6683ad5e03453671f8382d222fc2f8b8bb05d4613bad7f1475259693afdc537b
font_02_sfnt_off00013fe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1